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"It's about the law," say the people who just elected a multiple-convicted felon to the highest office in the country.
The cruelty is the point.
Hitler rose to power during the great depression. Deporting immigrants will push us towards a depression. Which is to say, I think Trump sees cruelty as a means towards authoritarianism. Yes, his base is cruel and hateful. But I think Trump's agenda runs much deeper.
I know a guy who was brought to the US illegally as a teen and is now in his 30s. Works as a contractor and started his own business. Truly one of the nicest and most generous people I know. Pays taxes, employs people, and does everything we do but he just isn't officially a citizen. He married an American and they have an 8 year old son who adores him. I hate thinking about the turmoil and sadness him being deported would cause his wife and son.
People can’t see how transparently pointless and harmful to the country this whole obsession with “illegals” has become. You don’t need to be a philosopher to see that it’s just plain evil.
It harkens back to the fact that human beings are nothing more than apes. Moral turpitude is on a spectrum, like all malignancies, and while 5% are fully psychopathic, a solid 30% of people are, for all practical purposes, incapable of abstract moral reasoning.
Have they already been born? I rest my case. /s
No care at all for the harm done to children BY policies which ignore things like grooming gangs though.
Policy shift? Where did it shift from?
I could see it.
Has the sky fallen yet?