They Are Going To Kill You
What are you going to do about it?
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The House and Senate just passed the most evil, fascistic bill that has been passed in my lifetime. Democrats are barely talking about it, most of the population doesn’t know what’s in it, and it’s promising to rapidly accelerate our speedrun through the trajectory of Nazi Germany. One of the most alarming top line items in the bill is a record $175 billion for ICE, $37.5 billion a year. This level of funding will make ICE more well-funded than most of the world’s militaries, including Israel. The United States will now have an unaccountable army of secret police, masked and unidentifiable, not beholden to the constitution, that has full authority to kidnap any random person off of the street they see fit.
As @wideofthepost aptly pointed out, this level of funding will create a machine that will continually need to expand its net in order to justify its existence. In short, no one is safe.
While the modern gestapo is receiving this record funding, Trump has already announced plans to pursue denaturalization of U.S. citizens, as the Supreme Court delivered a blow to the constitutionally enshrined right to citizenship at birth. Just these few things alone promise to radically reshape the United States in the coming years, turning it from a flawed, managed democracy, to something more akin to a state where the Executive has ultimate power and rules by decree.
To this end, Florida has just built a concentration camp in the Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that Republicans claim is for immigrant detention, but could easily hold just about anyone. The irony of the fact that in my hometown it takes 1.5 years to repave a road but they managed to build a whole concentration camp in a couple of weeks notwithstanding, the rate at which all of this is accelerating should be setting off alarms in the minds of every person of conscience in the United States. It’s important to remember that the first Nazi concentration camps were meant to be for detainment, not death, of undesirables. This is how it starts. And they’re hardly hiding their ambitions to this end. When talking about “Alligator Alcatraz” far right influencer and close advisor to Trump said “Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now”. Notably, 65 million is not the number of people here illegally, it is the total number of Latinos in the country, and Loomer is openly fantasizing about killing them all.
Some other horrifying items in the “Big Beautiful Bill” are the Medicaid cuts that will leave 16 million uninsured and the cuts to SNAP that promise to starve some of the poorest people in this country. From the Commonwealth Fund, “By cutting safety-net programs, the House budget bill reduces resources for low-income households (the lowest 10% of earners) by an average of $1,600. At the same time, the bill’s tax cuts increase resources for high-income households (the highest 10% of earners) by $12,000.” Catastrophically, these cuts also promise to close a slew of rural hospitals that need Medicaid funding to survive, leaving millions without the ability to receive any medical care at all, even in emergencies.
When put together, this bill will transform the United States as we know it in horrifying ways for decades to come. Laughably, the ostensible “opposition party” has spent more time attacking their Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City over the past two weeks than they have educating the public about this bill or fighting it. The biggest opposition they’ve managed to muster is Chuck Schumer doing victory laps for getting the name of the bill changed, and Hakeem Jeffries performing a toothless marathon speech that merely delayed the bill’s passing by a mere half day. While a scant 8% of the populace knows about the Medicaid cuts our fierce defenders of Democracy have neither educated the public nor fought back in any meaningful way.
This is all very bleak and the truth is that what is coming won’t be pretty, but all is not lost. There have been some bright spots amidst the darkness. In many ways the working class is waking up. The election of Zohran Mamdani by large margins, public opinion turning against Israel for the first time, even the “No Kings” protests (as liberal and questionable politically as they were), the Bernie/AOC oligarchy rallies — all of these show that there is something stirring among the people. Average folks are beginning to realize that that none of this is acceptable. Beyond the hideous things in this bill, life in general has become more and more precarious over the last decade. The promise of being able to carve out a little life for yourself reserved for fewer and fewer people. The dream of owning a home someday crushed for so many. The necessities of life rising in price exponentially. We are all in the vice and the squeeze is palpable. People feel intuitively that one bad swing of fate will thrust them into the abyss.
Our rulers may seem all powerful right now, but that is because there is no countervailing force. Yet it is important to bear in mind that there are so many more of us than there are of them. These are only men and men are mortal. Men can die. Men cannot escape justice if we decide to bring it to them. The challenge before us, as ever, is not to give workers new powers, but to uncover for them the power that they always had. To instill in them a sense that this is defeatable and that it doesn’t have to be this way. If you are not organizing but you are aware, you have taken the first step. Now is the time to ask yourself, what else can I do? Join an organization, talk to your neighbors, unionize your workplace. The only way out is through. There is no one coming to save us. No one can save us but us. We are the heroes we’ve been waiting for. Not the Democratic Party, not some imaginary left wing president. Us. It’s going to get worse before it gets better, but it can get better if we act. We must imagine ourselves as individual grains of sand. One grain cannot do much but enough sand and the gears necessarily stop grinding. Don’t wait until your neighbors get disappeared into the night. Don’t wait until it’s you on the menu. Don’t give in to despair. Do something now, and every single day. Together we have more power than any army. This system cannot perpetuate itself without us.
They are going to kill you. They’ve said so themselves. So what the hell are you going to do about it?
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The “illegals problem” was created for the express purpose of expanding ICE into a national police force that answers to no local or State authorities. The pattern of scapegoating a minority population as was done to the Jews in 1930s Germany is an often used play out of the political playbook. So, now, D.C. has its own Gestapo to harass, incarcerate and ultimately kill any who oppose them. All those cheering them on as the round up the hardest workers we have in our country should not be surprised when they get a knock on their door for posting something the folks in D.C. did not find to their liking. Yes, this bill signals the official start of a true dystopian future for the United States.
Thank you for always being honest yet hopeful about the state of the country!