“The cruelty is the part of the policy.”
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The la-la land of the Sunday morning shows—where one side lies and the other fruitlessly complains about it—has gotten steadily more theatrical over many years. But it has now devolved into an absurd argument over whether certain human beings are worthy of life.
Senator Adam Schiff this morning, for example:
“And one thing that is just so shocking to me, George, in the midst of all this, they’re appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard, who goes all the way through the court system, to cut food from people who need it right now? But that’s where the coming from the cruelty is part of the policy.“
Schiff asks “Who does that?” which is a question that has an answer—one that shouldn’t be shocking. There are two reinforcing phenomena that lead to the sadism—the “cruelty”—of this regime:
Donald Trump filled his administration with racists and eugenicists who want poor, Black and brown people to die. It is white man terror mirrored as sadism.
Donald Trump is a collapsing malignant narcissist terrified of the Epstein files. Fear of losing dictates everything he does. The regime’s “cruelty” is also his personal terror mirrored as sadism.
The “policy” on the other hand, the “political” goal of this behavior, is to cause so much pain to Americans that we submit to a dictatorship. The politics is to get rid of politics by any means necessary, including starving, impoverishing, and disappearing people.
However, despite this gloomy scenario, I am struck that none of the levers the regime is using appears to be working as it anticipated. Rather than pushing America over a tipping point, it seems to be tipping back hard in the other direction.
“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice” was a phrase first used by an abolitionist Unitarian minister in 1853, and slightly adapted by Martin Luther King. It is not an argument for passivity; it is an argument that the bending is a collective effort, and that all of us have to participate.
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