Ban Trump's sad view of America - By Jim Hightower

[DonViejo]

Will the U.S. realize Trump's vision of fear and bigotry? Or is our land one of courage, openness and inclusion?

JIM HIGHTOWER

Who are we?

Are we the great America of courage, spunk, openness, inclusion, opportunity and democratic promise — as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms and Emma Lazarus’ sonnet engraved on the Statue of Liberty?

Or are we the sad America of fear, cowardice, bigotry, xenophobia, intolerance and autocracy — negative traits emanating from the darkness of Donald Trump’s miserable dystopian view of our society, which has now resulted in his unilaterally imposing a contemptible and chaotic ban on immigrants’ traveling from seven Muslim nations.

The Donald and his thuggish regime of demagogic nativists from the far-right fringe are hoping that we’re the timorous America. They shout that the people voted for the fair-haired strongman, and now they expect him to save them from bloodthirsty terrorists sneaking into America from Muslim nations. But wait: First of all, the majority of us did not vote for him. So spare us the lie that you have a “mandate” to discriminate.

Second, if your aim really was to save us from Islamic terrorists, you missed by miles. Exactly zero Americans have been killed in terrorists’ attacks here by any immigrants from these seven countries. So why them, and not Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan — Muslim nations with citizens who have attacked Americans? And by the way, isn’t it curious that Trump’s ban doesn’t include Muslim countries where he has major corporate investments?

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http://www.salon.com/2017/02/04/ban-trumps-sad-view-of-america/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Part of the problem is can average decent people who are not trumps

racists, can they AFFORD to participate in a general strike, fly to a city for a protest?

No, most cant.



I have been trying to organize a national website where we could encourage their participation and where we could all go to for information on protest, phone calling campaigns, etc. One stop place for LA RESISTANCE