This past July was our 249th Independence Day and the Trump regime just finished building MANZANAR 2.0, Florida style. Are we still the land of the free? That’s not what a “great” nation does. That’s what a fascist regime does. That’s what Hitler and the Third Reich did.
And Trump is proud, so very proud of and celebrating the cruelty and inhumanity, calling it “winning”. It’s funny to him. And Noem. And Miller. And MAGA. It’s Project 2025 successfully implementing another piece of its Christofascist authoritarian agenda.
It’s also a test to see how much cruelty Americans will tolerate and accept as normal. A dog whistle painted red, white, and blue that shits on your lawn.
Independence for what and whom? Ignoring the Constitution? Mocking the rule of law? Condemning judges? Letting the American people suffer while coddling, subsidizing, and giving tax cuts to the “welfare queen” oligarchy by overtaxing the middle, working, and lower classes to pay for it?
That’s “trickle up economics” because “trickle down” was too “costly” for the billionaires who made their money off of exploiting the very people that facilitate their path to gratuitous wealth.
Treating our brown brothers and sisters like animals as we did the Japanese on our own stolen soil? I’m also getting post 9/11 Abu Ghraib vibes – another dark stain on our history and military, just like enslaving kidnapped black brothers and sisters, and Manzanar post America’s entrance to WWII.
Remember never forget? Well America has and is repeating the history it’s desperately whitewashing. This is not the country the Revolution fought England for. The USA is the oppressor the Founding Fathers warned future generations about. The government doesn’t work for us and it’s time to remind them who’s boss: We the People.
By: Jennie Bye Garza
