Meantime, the same administration is looking for every way it can to enable wealthy individuals and corporations get even richer. (Which Jesus do they cite for that?) And the President is busy managing the White House ballroom’s construction and welcoming rich syncopates to a tawdry Halloween party at Mar-a-Largo. Gives new meaning to “fiddling while Rome burns.”
If President Trump is going to deny supporting anyone financially during this shut-down, it ought to stop paying congress. On top of that, it should fine the House Republicans for failing to show up at work for weeks, with a double fine imposed upon Mike Johnson. It would be a sweet violence, rightly-earned.
The violence that’s been visited upon immigrant-appearing populations is now being visited upon the most vulnerable Americans. If we think that’s as far as the violence against our own people will go, we are fooling only ourselves. Next thing we know, it will be our turn, if we dare share a contrary opinion at all.
It is—every bit of it—cruel, uncalled-for, and un-Christian.
