Unbridled Anger at the Separation of Families

Unbridled Anger at the Separation of Families

Some people say that the eyes are the window to the soul. Sometimes when I look in people’s eyes, I can see warmth, or honesty, or intelligence, or some other desirable characteristic. Other times, I see nothing. Sometimes this nothingness is indifference. Sometimes it’s what I saw today when I looked at a picture of Ann Coulter. The nothingness is a deficit of soul.

This same nothingness can be seen in Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Tomi Lahren, Steve Bannon and many others. It can be seen in much of the GOP, present day Republicans, Trump supporters, and so-called Christians. The Trump Administration has been on a roll since their campaign with fostering hate, division, fear, and inhumane policies including cutting insurance programs for children, the elderly, and the poor, complete disregard for the U.S. territory Puerto Rico, and now the separation of families. For a party that claims they are pro-life and pro-family, they are certainly participating in the very opposite. Taking young children away from their parents is neither pro-life nor pro-family. It is sad, heartbreaking, despicable, and an embarrassment to the United States. Any person believing this is normal or acceptable is blind. They have forgotten every instance in history in which this very thing has taken place. For some, they are the same people who said they would not have complied with Hitler or that they would have helped the Jews. They think they would have been smart enough to not fall prey to McCarthyism. They fail to see the parallel between what is happening now and what happened to Japanese Americans during World War 2 or what happened to Armenians during the genocide of 1915. They are either blind or they are turning a blind eye and pretending that none of these travesties exist.

I am angered and sickened by all of these travesties, including the one taking place now in our country. We cannot say we are pro-life or pro-family and believe that separating families and torturing young children because they are not like us, or because their parents brought them here seeking asylum, or even because they are here illegally is acceptable. What they are doing to these young children is torture, pure and simple. Assholes like Corey Lewandowski (I wonder where he thinks his ancestors are from?) and Donald Trump who mock the disabled and bitches like Laura Ingraham, Tomi Lahren and Ann Coulter who are out of touch with reality or any sense are soulless. If there is a hell, they are all headed there. I generally try not to use foul language in my writing as much as possible, but these people cannot be lumped in the same category as humans because they are not. These terms are the closest I can come at this time to describing their inhumanity. Agree with me or not – it really doesn’t matter to me because which side of this issue you are on tells me all I really need to know. Blind, stupid, or inhumanely soulless are the only three reasons I can think of that a person would feel that separating families and torturing young children is OK. Don’t tell me they’re not tortured when they are being caged up like animals, separated from their families, and in some of the worst cases, molested by monsters like Jose Nunez (a Texas deputy who sexually assaulted a four-year-old detainee).

This is all going down in history and someday students will read about these incidents and what we as a nation did, or did not do.