I have spent more than twenty years of my career helping human services and early education agencies all around the country with administration of childcare programs and everything related to it.
My customers are child advocates who have dedicated their lives to breaking the cycle of poverty in our country, and helping young children get out from under the yoke of economic oppression and sometimes misfortune. They are dedicated to the welfare and safe-keeping of young children, and they are passionate about it. Their work means everything to them.
I cannot imagine what it must feel like for them to be forced to be complicit with state-organized and state-created child abuse and human trafficking, because that is exactly what I think is going on in our country now.
These child advocates are now finding themselves in a position to have to search for care and safety for thousands of children who should be with their parents, but have been kidnapped by our government. This is a crisis entirely of our own making.
We have lost our moral authority.
The United States used to be John Winthrop’s Shining City upon a Hill, and we came after countries for human rights violations. Then it started to get shaky when Bush and Cheney started openly torturing people. McCain, a torture victim himself, spoke out against the practice. Once we tortured our prisoners, every American soldier, upon capture anywhere, would then have to fear to be tortured him or herself.
Now, with open racism, and state-enacted kidnapping, child abuse and human trafficking, taking children, even babies, away for their parents with no hope of reunification, we have lost all moral authority for decades to come.
It will be a very long time before the United States can lecture a rogue dictator for human rights violations. It will be a very long time before we can justify invading a country because it abuses its own citizens. We have given up this bargaining chip. It will be generations before our representatives, our presidents, can walk into a room again and command moral authority, and stand on the principle that the United States does the right thing.
I am disgusted with my government that commits crimes against humanity. I am disappointed with my fellow citizens who support these practices by propping up the Little Man in the White House.
Make America Great Again?
Right now, I am ashamed for my country!
I am so sorry for you Norbert….& for millions of decent Americans.
In Australia few years back, we experienced having the national embarrassment of a leader who was laughed at, both at home & abroad.
There was more to it of course, than mere humor. That leader did great damage to our “social fabric”. Even now, after being “deposed” he remains a divisive figure here.
And yet…even his worst days do not compare with what Trump does….EVERY day–!!
Further, Australia does NOT have anything like the geo-political “clout” of the U.S.
Accordingly, Trump effects ALL of us…EVERYWHERE–!!
The shame is thus so much more–!!
VERY sad–!!!
There are only a few people in history who rise up to do great good or great ill.
I am watching one of them, feeling powerless. That millions and millions (!) of Americans want to help this man succeed does not seem real.
The crookedness is so obvious, so blatant. Don’t they see?
They can’t allow themselves to see it or they would have to admit they were stupid to vote for him and/or conned. Conmen bank on this. So to cult leaders.
Trump has made his followers believe only what HE says he true, all else is fake. Standard operating procedure for dictators and conmen. He will call on them to “rise up” if anything happens to him, like impeachment.