I never want to read or hear "it can't happen again. Not here. Not these days" again.
Human beings, over our history, have shown a remarkable ability for cruelty on mass scale. Annihilation of people based on color, religion, race, politics. Each one of us will have a particular horror in our minds depending upon when we were born, our family history, or when we learned about it.
What we are seeing today with the border migrant atrocities is that it can indeed happen again - and it will. We will watch it - there will be speeches, edicts, statements, posts, tweets - but it certainly can and will happen again.
I have no idea what is wrong with us as a species in general - how we can become apathetic, retreat into our comfort zone because "it isn't happening to us". But the older I get, the more disgusted I get.
By the way - I've been having lunch Wednesdays with my two best friends (former work colleagues) for nearly 20 years. We've talked about everything - our lives, families, jobs, hobbies, you name it. Something interesting has happened recently. We can't even go near talking politics. It has become so surreal for so long - trump and his have gotten away with so much - that there simply is no more to say. we've not normalized him....we've just become so frustrated with the inability to do anything about it (apparently) that we've checked out. Three years of nonstop bullshit will do that, I guess.
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