Round 'em Up

06:39 Tuesday, 22 October 2024
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It must be something in the air. Just catching up with the blogs I follow and stumbled on this.

Mass deportations require "informants," people ratting out their neighbors.

Well, they were never really their neighbors, were they?

"They're eating the cats!"

Trump voters.

People like you and me.

Really?

A nation of cowboys.

A nation of Staszi.

Read the post.

Such a huge mission will effectively redefine the purpose of law enforcement: the principle is no longer to make all people feel safe, but to make some people unsafe.

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This Morning's Moon 10-22-24

06:32 Tuesday, 22 October 2024
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I forgot to mention "the enemy within."

"Round 'em up!"

Anyway.

Moon was directly overhead. Hardest elevation to shoot. Got two decent shots. Here's one.

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Sleepless

04:53 Tuesday, 22 October 2024
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I've been awake since 01:49. Wake up to piss, go back to bed and lie awake wondering why people want to vote for Donald Trump.

I don't know that I've come to any stunning insight, but it seems to me that these people are among those, from any time in history, who want to "Round 'em up!"

Immigration seems like the biggest issue for the Republican Party. An easy "other" to demonize.

"Round 'em up!"

Expel them from the country.

Germany in 1933? The Jews.

"Round 'em up!"

Originally they supposedly just wanted to expel them from Germany, but we know how that worked out.

America in 1941? The Japanese.

"Round 'em up!"

America in 1830? The Five Civilized Tribes.

"Round 'em up!"

America in the '50s? The communists.

"Round 'em up!"

(Probably couldn't "expel" them from the country so soon after WW II, but they did expel them from economic and cultural life.)

Fugitive slaves?

"Round 'em up!"

I definitely think this is, either consciously or unconsciously, the thing that most appeals to Trump voters. There are people who feel as though there are always some "others" who are getting something they don't deserve and the expense of the "good people." People who feel as though they might be better off if those "others" weren't "scamming the system."

This idea of "rough men," with guns and wearing uniforms "rounding 'em up," appeals to them. Excites them. Because it is "action," taken for them. "Protecting" them. Their "way of life."

Their pets.

I think they know this at some level. I think they're not proud of it. That's why the enthusiasm level is down. They're still going to vote for him, but they're not proud of it.

They want those "others" rounded up. Locked up. Roughed up.

Kicked out. To the curb.

To, "Make America Great Again."

America: A nation of cowboys.

"Round 'em up!"

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