Oh, sure, there’s warning signs your kid might be using drugs but what do I do if I love a country that I suspect might be, you know, becoming kind of totalitarian? Is there a checklist of warning signs of totalitarianism? Apparently not so much. Fascism, though, yes. I want to know what people thought in 1939 in Germany. I want to know, at what point do you stop saying “It’s not so bad yet, this can be changed” and start saying “oh shit, it’s way too late.”
I got an email today on the college alumni list about a woman who has been denied re-entry to the US for no apparent reason. Daily Kos has more. Now, the thing is, there might be some legitimate paperwork screwup. She wasn’t bundled off to Gitmo or anything, and maybe in a few weeks this’l all be sorted out. Still, it’s a hell of a way to treat a legal resident who’s just gone home to visit family across the border.
And it really seems to me like the US is going off the deep end with its xenophobia– this, the vigilante border patrols… how can we reverse this trend and make the country what it can be? Is it still possible to reverse? At what point do people start to wonder where it all went wrong?
Secretly Ironic 