Vicious

Well, I just got told I was being "vicious" by someone I love very dearly, for deciding I can no longer associate with anyone who is a Trump apologist, no matter how heartbreaking that decision may be for me in any given case. It's not vicious to know, and say, there is a line in the sand now that we have a fascist for a President, and I have to stand on the side of the 2,500 children. If you know about them, and you don't stand with them and against Trump's policies, then you are complicit. That's just reality. The 2,500 children in internment camps is what forced the line very real and absolute for me.

So life in Trump's America is that family and friends are ripped apart, and I'm not referring to what's going on at the border.  I'm referring to the person who sat next to me last week and sobbed about the unbridgeable canyon between he and his Trump-supporting brother. I'm talking about myself, and a person I love dearly, to whom I felt I had to say tonight, basically this: either you are with the 2,500 children or you are complicit. Complicit with fascism, and traumatizing 2,500 babies and children. And where does that leave us? On different sides of a line, an unbridgeable chasm.

The thing is, I'm a student of the Holocaust. And that's why I HAVE to see the line, and speak up. Just like Maxine Waters, actually, did the other day, and she is getting all kinds of misunderstood and all kinds of flack for it: she wasn't advocating violence! She was advocating creative NON-violent resistance! Speaking up and calling out fascism and complicity with same. She was saying: don't be silent. Elie Wiesel always said: don't be silent. I have not been silent, God knows. I've been shouting about Trump being a wannabe fascist since the primaries. And like I've said, I even predicted camps. Predicted it right on Facebook, and took a lot of heat for it then--I was called "overly dramatic", and unfriended by one person over it.  And now it's real.  And it's the line for me. Child internment camps is when Trump goes from wannabe fascist to fascist, and it then becomes incumbent upon all of us to NOT let him drag us, or our country, with him.