Blueprint For A Genocide: A President At War With His Own Country
Blueprint For A Genocide: A President At War With His Own Country
Mar 27
Written By Jared Yates Sexton
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One of our major problems as a society in our inability to move beyond preconceived notions and definitions. Our myths about authoritarians have left us unable to recognize one in our very midst. Our devotion to the myth of leadership and the solidity of American government has prevented us from seeing Donald Trump as a despot-in-the-making. And our misplaced optimism and faith have allowed creeping authoritarianism to destroy our institutions one at a time.
Now, as we stand on the precipice of what could be a historical atrocity, we rely on dated and limited definitions of genocide to hide our fear of a storm that is set to rage and kill an untold amount of Americans.
Let us be clear: genocide does not require violent, hands-on killing. Guns are not necessary. Mass death camps are not necessary. Simply holding back necessary supplies and aid for political purposes constitutes genocide and has led to some of the most tragic moments in human history.
We’ve seen it with Stalin, with Mao, with Pol Pot, with the British Empire in India, in colonies around the world.
In the United States with the systematic eradication of the Native People.
What we see coming at this moment is a textbook genocide, a targeting of individuals for purposes of political retribution. Trump has already said as much, laying out a requirement that governors and citizens praise him in full and worship him relentlessly should they want the help of the federal government. His plans to “reopen” the country draw a clear distinction between liberal hotbeds like New York, California, and Washington and “the Bible Belt,” as he called it, and what former Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin infamous referred to as “Real America.”
It is a quiet genocide. A slow-moving genocide. But it is as brutal as anything anyone can imagine. People who die from coronavirus suffer terribly as they gasp for air and as they are kept from their loved ones and denied even the most basic human connection. As Trump makes his decision he is undoubtedly keeping an eye on the electoral map from 2016 that he always has at his ready. He is callous and irredeemably broken enough to let such superficial things influence his judgment.
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Thank you for posting this!
I constantly wonder whether this will catalyze fundamental changes ONCE WE TAKE WH & SENATE.
Will presidential powers be limited going forward?
Perhaps an equally relevant question is why the Federalists are not designated as a domestic terrorist organization!
Our country's founders clearly could not have imagined a traitor in the white house. Hence the problem of perception regarding "daddy" can do no wrong.
At what point will some authority remove him? Military? Police? A state entity? Or will they - those in powerful positions - continue to allow him to kill our country, literally and figuratively? No, we don't want an unstable government & are careful with setting precedents, but is THIS a good standard? 
