in November.

This could be a gift - because with Democrats in control (gaining the majority in the House and hopefully also the Senate), then THEY will be the ones who can lead. THEY will be the ones who can bring bills to the floor for a vote. THEY will be the ones to initiate policy moves and vetting in the committees. THEY will be the ones who can set the agenda in those committees. THEY will be the ones with the subpoena power in those committees. THEY will be the ones to move forward with investigations - particularly the ones the republi-CONS have kiboshed, ignored, or blocked. If the CONS stay in control, we go nowhere. And more innocents will suffer. And more families will be broken. And more children will be traumatized - FOR LIFE.

It could also become a cautionary tale for republi-CONS that if they cling to trump, that won't save them (especially if we MESSAGE it that way, and make that point LOUDLY AND CONSTANTLY assuming it works out that way), despite what their base voters may do. Because there are MORE OF US than there are of the GOP's base. There are MORE OF US Democrats. If you add in a nice chunk of independents, more of whom lean toward the left than to the right, then there are WAY MORE OF US on the side of the light.

and knows best, and manipulates on a minute-by-minute basis, is going to be his downfall.

Even some of the hardest of the hard-hearted and most willfully uninformed, those pictures don't lie. Those photos of those pitiful little ones, the crying children, those wide little eyes filled with fear and trepidation - as well as tears. THOSE PHOTOS, and now, too, the audio released by ProPublica where you can HEAR their cries and their wailing. THOSE will be his undoing, if anything can be.

Television: the very medium he craves and covets will be what destroys him. THOSE PHOTOS in particular, and the audio coming from that ProPublica tape - whose transcript flashes across the screen as you hear the children's plaintive voices - THOSE VISUALS. THAT is what finally might do it. At long last.

Because you can't avoid or misinterpret those visuals - unless, of course, you're the miserable Alex Jones, that is. Hmmm... gotta go add that to the thread listing names for the "Special Place in Hell" Club!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210753659

by these fucking fascists.

American people are.

I hope this fact is shouted loud and clear

Or maybe it's hateful and not stupid or a mix of both. Luckily, they're not the majority of us. Not by a long shot.

We will impeach and prosecute.

This is a gift that Republicans do not understand. GOP has totally lost any remaining moral compass. Let's make the most of it.

approving are on his Kidnapping Bandwagon.

So he can begin his warmongering.

Is a single one of them ready to do what they know is right?

I never thought the day would come when opposing locking up innocent children would be the risky political choice.

I believe that any civil society that takes upon itself to encode laws and regulations upon its citizens and visitors, that in order to enforce those edicts must provide the proper facilities and personnel to do so in a fair, just, and humanitarian manner.

It's also my belief that if our government must detain people with children crossing our borders who don't have authorization to do so, that we should have facilities in place to house them safely and comfortably together, with proper food and medical facilities available until they are justly processed.

I must confess that I don't know all the laws and regulations that govern those who step across our borders. What I do know is that we should treat those people with compassion and fairness and if practical give them a new lease on life in America. Somehow, we've failed to educate our populace on the international concepts of asylum and safe refuge.

Most Americans are also being blind hypocrites regarding those crossing the border to find work. We turned a blind eye to them for many decades and we all profited from their labor, but now suddenly are treating them like criminals. There's also the problem of our justice system failing our own citizens in many ways in the courts, jails and prisons.

If we fail to fix these problems, I fear we're doomed to fail as a society. We have enough challenges fighting for economic justice and equality, as well as the coming climate change. If we lose our humanitarian values, the rest of the world will increasingly turn away from us and may turn against us.

Rant over.......... ........