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.