RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
January 8, 2021 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2021 at 1:22 pm by Aristocatt.)
(January 8, 2021 at 1:10 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Giving fascists their monument to fascism is not getting one over on them. It's not using some ineffectual thing they want to get something that we need.
It's just giving them something that they want, and they will sweep away whatever you've gotten that we need at their earliest convenience - as they've been doing. As you've seen, something can be the law of the land, on the books, and that won't exactly matter to fascists. They'll get their wall, you'll get another law they ignore, subvert, repeal, or best of all..actively use to suppress the hated other.
Most of the atrocities and human rights violations at the border aren't a flagrant disregard for the law. They are the break down of norms that were never enshrined as law(or in some cases the application of law that had until the Trump presidency been ignored). It would be difficult to believe in the current political climate, that an amnesty law could be successfully repealed, there just isn't any broad support for that.
And it still isn't clear to me how building a wall makes it easier for fascists to pass legislation to shoot undocumented immigrants once we expand their legal rights, relative to having no wall and less legal rights.