I live in Seattle, near an Industrial area and several of my neighbors live in RVs in the street or more often now in boxes and tents. This is mostly due to rapid growth and a brain dead zoning policy that resulted in almost all housing that someone on a fixed income could afford. While this is not Trumps fault the following part is.
I just spent almost an hour talking with a man that is living in a box a block away. I often offer him food and a warm place to eat. He is a Gulf War veteran, and he is scared. He was kicked out of his apartment a year ago when it was torn down to build townhouse. His entire disability goes to buying insulin and other medicines. He knows very well that when the federal funding is pulled from our “Sanctuary City” that his days are numbered. I know that his story is not unique. I do not have a handicap friendly house, and he has already refused my charity due to pride. But the divisive scorched earth policies of this administration will most likely lead to him dieing in a diabetic coma in the streets within the next 12 months.
Dylann Roof single handedly killed 3 x as many people in a terrorist attack than people in the US on refugee visas killed in the 40 years from 1975-2015. Of the roughly 768,000 total murders committed in the United States from 1975 to the end of 2015, only 3 were from refugee’s
The chance that someone will be killed in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee is 1 in 3,640,000,000 a year.
To put this in perspective your odds of being struck by lightning this year are 1 in 960,000.
The people that created the “white genocide” myth are your neighbors, and in fact Dylann Roof was inspired by one of mine, Harold Covington lives in the PNW and he calls for violence that is indiscernible from that of ISIS.
Yet we as a country have bought their lies, we punish Iraqis who fought side by side with our soldiers, despite a far higher mortal risk than even our brave Men and Women faced. We elected a president that repaid our allies by assigning them to death. We bought their demonization of refugees and now are making those people in need pay with their lives.
As an example of how close the asshole Harold Covington is to ISIS, his response on twitter to the terrorist attack in Montreal was anger because it was not a start of a war, and that it looked bad. No remorse, nothing but being mad that it was “bad optics”.
I am pretty low in spirit, and while our previous POTUS administrations were also very much guilty of evil, I now fear that the “Race War” that they have been looking to start may have been a silent one that we already lost.
Trump owns the ear of a large segment of our country, and they will rally around an idea but toss away what is real.
I hate Trump today just because I can’t find anything to be hopeful about. While he may make me richer, as I am an upper-middle class white male, I would never want that to happen this way.
There are very dark days ahead I fear.
