Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:
“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”
But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:
“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”
Controlled opposition. They think the republican’s extremism is just performative and they are playing bad cop to the d good cop still, despite the fact the administration is clearly playing hitler.
If democrats were involved in systematic voter fraud for decades, they would have to be punished. It doesn’t matter what Republican power brokers, ivy league suits they went to school with when they both joined those secret clubs whereby they hire business and government leaders almost exclusively, have assured them, that they won’t persecute them. They would have to be punished. And they will be, the republicans are already gearing up for it, fixing elections, and projecting that on the democrats, and using the awesome power of the state to suppress the opposition.
One would’ve thought the democrats after 2020 at the latest would’ve realized that to save the republic, and themselves, they would’ve needed to change strategy, to not be good cop whose mission is crushing popular reform for the rich, but rather to offer popular reform, to win and set up a political machine that would dominate and prevent the republicans from getting in running as reform, and fixing the system.
I’m sick of arguing it, the cheerleaders don’t argue in good faith, they can’t, they can only obscure the issue with slander, personal attacks, misclassifying the situation. Yet we are grown, we can see what happened, it’s beyond dispute. These democrats leading the opposition is tantamount to surrendering to the Republicans. There is no scenario where we don’t end up in a fascist one party state under reigns of terror indefinitely with these democrats leading us.
That is step 1, we have to organize to get there, but we can’t skip ahead to other steps if that one doesn’t get completed. Get your fucking head straight America, we need real leadership.