Stephan:  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a faithful minion of former Governor Sam Brownback is a classic example of White supremacist christofascist governance. Which is to say his worldview is not fact-based, being instead a toxic confection of White supremacy, christofascism all packaged with a lack of compassion or integrity. I urge you to read this story, because it illustrates exactly what I mean as clearly as a laboratory test. Kobach is running for governor and it will be interesting to see whether the people of Kansas have learned their lesson with Brownback, or whether they want a little more. The problems in Kansas arise from the people of Kansas, and how they voted. That's what democracy is all about, just as the Founders intended.

Stephan:  The tragedy of Flint, Michigan, a classic example of Republican governance, has produced serious push back, and has become a teaching moment for other states, under both Democratic and Republican governance. Lead knows no political party. This story describes the good news. I think that it is particularly important that this response is at the state level because of what is happening at the federal level to the EPA under The Trump Reich.  

Stephan:  The immigration issues we are experiencing in the U.S., as well as the migration crises we see around the world, all arise from social disruption because of war or climate change. Denying the existence of climate change,  doesn't mean it isn't happening, only that we are going to be unprepared for it as a country. I wrote this essay when I took the time to dig into the social outcome data of what is actually going on. Here's what I found. In addition to people coming to our borders we are going to experience three massive internal migrations, away from the coasts because of sea rise, out of the southwest because of temperatures and lack of water, and out of the central states because of violent weather events like tornadoes. Get ready, whether you like it or not these trends are going to change your life.

Stephan:  It is completely predictable in a society that places profit above wellbeing, that the situation described in this report is occurring. This entire nightmare is grounded in profit. The documentation makes it clear that Trump was planning this as a flash act to prove his macho to his christofascist base, from the very first days of his administration. And I want to be clear here. Trump has brought this secret world into the spotlight, but he did not start this.  This has been going on back through administrations of both parties. Trump inherited from Obama a robust camp system. He just jacked it up and, because he is always flashy, vulgar, and obvious, I hope he is going to be responsibly for ending it. He is forcing us as a country to consider what is really going on. Why are there so many immigrants?  Just how racist are we? To what lengths are we willing to go?  From the perspective of "profit first" it's a golden deal.  Like the opioid crisis it is completely legal, manufactured, and profitable. This is a strategy. There is good news in this however. Note that over a period of about 48 hours, from the time the toddler tape aired, a critical consensus of intentioned focused awareness coalesced and rejected the idea of separating  baby and child concentration camps. They forced change by its beingness as I described in 8 Laws of Change. The United States runs the largest gulag in the world and has run for some time the very definition of a concentration camp system. I gave you Merriam-Webster's definition yesterday. Today the Oxford English Dictionary; the one I consider definitive:

"A place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities."

And these camps and the entire infrastructure around them are unspeakably profitable. Indeed, there are so many stories now emerging about this secret world that I am going to do them over several days. I picked this article though because it gives good context and makes the point that the people who run the long term shelters are different than law enforcement personnel. It presents how the actual people on the ground, at least some, feel. Of course it begs the point. Why is the United States in this situation in the first place? If we had worked with the wellbeing oriented forces in the Central American countries from which these people come, instead of dictatorships, and authoritarian governments, in order to take profit out of the country whatever the wellbeing cost, none of this would be happening. What worries me is that many Americans are in such a fugue or rage, hate, and despair that Trump makes sense. According to 538, across all polls, as I write this, 42.6% "approve" of Trump. If you just consider likely or registered voters it's 43.3% To be even more concerning is what Gallup found in their most recent poll: "Thirty-six percent of U.S. adults have a positive image of Donald Trump "as a person," while 55% have a negative opinion of him. Nearly three-quarters of Republicans view Trump positively as a person while only 7% of Democrats do." This is the Great Schism Trend in your face. Time to choose. Oh, I guarantee you that when this is over, if goes as I hope it will to foster wellbeing, we will hear a lot of "I was just following orders, doing what I was told to do."  It is always amazing to realize what people will do.  

Stephan:  The figures are beginning to come in. Sea rise is coming into focus along the coasts no matter which party controls each state. Mother Nature bats last. You can see the real estate crisis coming.