Slave labor camps in the united states

The President of the united states, the place where I live, has kidnapped roughly 2000 children(1). He is holding them hostage,forcefully, in order to secure funding for his purposed border wall(2), which would cost us 21.6 billion dollars(3).

Look at it

(4)

He is holding children for ransom, quite literally, in order to fulfill his authoritarian agenda.

The Republicans who are supposed to be the party of christian morals and fiscal responsibility, are doing this. Yet, the old cliche still rings true, that actions speak louder then words.

My moral repugnance aside, what does this mean?

Well to understand anything, we must understand the context in which this is taking place.

So, why would so many people be fleeing central america, and coming to the united states in the first place? This is a question i haven't seen the holier then thou elitist democrats asking, but it is vital to get the real picture.

According to the justice for immigrants website(5) there are four main causes for the mass immigration that we are seeing.

War, violence and persecution
Poor wages, and lack of jobs
Crop failure, pollution and natural disasters
Limited opportunity

The majority of these people aren't violent gang members, as the sitting president wants you to think, but rather people fleeing the horrid conditions which they find themselves in. So, to put this bluntly, this immigration crisis, should rather be called a refugee crisis.

It is a reaction, to their very real material conditions.

"They're heading out of the old dust bowl, they think they're headed to a sugar bowl, but here is what they find"
(6)

and what do they find? The horrors of the work camps.(7)They find literal slavery. Gulags. Indentured servitude. Give it what ever name you please.

This is the state of politics in the united states, it's not new, the united states has been a force for overtly authoritarian sentiments in the past.

To give a few examples. the Iranian coup(8), the banana massacre(9), the genocide of the natives(10), and the Japanese(11) interment camps.

this list could go on for a long time, these are just a few examples.

So what does this mean?

Victims of horrible material conditions are seeking to flee from them, and in return, the united states government is turning these people into slaves.

This isn't a simple disagreement on how loose or strict the immigration laws should be. No! This is a much broader issue. It's not simple morals. It's an question of the model in which our society is structured.

What should be our concerns as a people?

What does this mean?

We're seeing a rise of an overtly authoritarian, inhumane, model of capitalist governance.

This policy has caused the United Nations to ask the united states to immediately halt(11) this practice of separating families, jailing them, forcing them work, etc.

So the trump administration, in response to this, withdrew The United States out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.(12)

So what has happened? How has The United States gotten here?

Well, I think, that this is because the Left has failed to offer an alternative. The working class has become disillusioned with the liberal elites, right? Haven't we all? The issue, is that once they became disillusioned with the liberals,with the social justice warriors, with the moral absolutism, and vulgar quasi-leftist rhetoric of the liberals, they were looking for something else, and the legitimate left(meaning the socialists) have failed to offer them a solution.

Yes, we had the social democrat Bernie Sanders run, but the elites saw too he wasn't elected.

So the working class had nowhere to turn but to the far right, because, the workers want better for themselves. I know I do, and Trump promised to deliver this. His slogans revolved around this idea. His promise to have a situation where america wouldn't be losers anymore,his promises that we will be returned to past glory, was a promise to improve the lives of the workers. he plays the propaganda game better then anyone I've ever seen.

This is the unity of the conflict of the opposites. The liberal ruling class waged a war against the working class.
This conflict, has made enough quantitative changes to negate the old liberal capitalist society. The number of racist sentiment has increase, the number xenophobics has increased, and other false consciousnesses. This rise of false consciousness has suddenly changed the quality of our society.

To what?

I'm not too sure, from the looks of it, some sort of quasi-fascism. The beginning stages of fascism maybe. Idk what to call it honestly, but it certainly isn't very good.

Call me alarmist, as I'm sure you will, but this isn't me trying to sound the alarm, but rather make sense of the whole thing.

So what is there to do?

The democratic socialists of america tell me that we must wait for the election cycle, vote blue, and all our problems will disappear.

I don't know if that will work, what if the democrats don't win a majority? are they even worth voting for at this point?

What happens if this blue wave doesn't happen? That's all every person is banking on. I've heard it a hundred times now. Every leftist tells me that the house and the senate are going to go democrat, but they also told me that trump wasn't ever going to win, so don't even worry about it.

They were wrong then, what if they're wrong now?

What happens when the prophets are wrong?

You can hold your signs up, but what will you do? When the ICE starts coming for you?

I welcome you, to the end.

https://matthewboyles.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-end

Sources

1 ) https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/19/migrant-children-being-held-in-camps-in-17-states/

2 ) http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/columnists/michael-smolens/sd-me-smolens-immigration-20180618-story.html

3 ) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wall-exclusive-idUSKBN15O2ZN

4 ) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border

5 ) https://justiceforimmigrants.org/what-we-are-working-on/immigration/root-causes-of-migration/

6 ) This is a quote from a Wood Guthrie song