“Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking.”
“Whether collectivists realize it or not, they voted to put those kids in cages separated from their families. They voted for Trump to inherit the Obama era powers.”
“California police say they have arrested two people for abducting and attempting to deport a 21-year-old foreign flight school student.”
Read more: http://time.com/5293011/chinese-flight-student-kidnapped-deportation/
“It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/03/09/banality-evil-war-drugs/
“We have not criminalized parents who choose to raise their kids in homes with stairs. But increasingly we have criminalized parents who choose to let their kids out of their sight.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/03/31/why-parents-are-more-paranoid-than-ever/
“Trump is not the originator of this madness. We have spent decades preparing the slippery slope he is gleefully pushing us down.”
“Though lawmakers and concerned citizens alike can justifiably balk at the prospect of Trump becoming ‘Napoleonic‘ or wasting money on the pomp and circumstance of military worship, the far more damning truth is that this is only a natural progression of a decades-long fetish for American militarism, which, from the looks of the current climate in the United States, does not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.”
Read more: https://steemit.com/news/@careywedler/what-everyone-is-missing-about-trump-s-military-parade
“Polls show that public opinion on NSA spying shifts back and forth depending upon who is in the White House. In other words, liberal or conservative voters generally aren’t opposed to mass surveillance as long as their party is in power.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-fisa-reauthorization-only-boosts-big-brother/
“Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was much more than just horribly mistaken: He fabricated ‘evidence’ and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false. Unfortunately, Congress never investigated Powell’s use of the intelligence he was given, so we don’t know many of the specifics.”
“The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation of Democrats that is more liberal and personally invested in standing up to President Donald Trump’s Washington than those leaving office. That means staking out the most liberal stance on issues such as single-payer health care in California, a highly expensive initiative that failed in the legislature last year. The push is in response to the uncertainty surrounding health-care revisions in Washington, but it is estimated to cost twice the state’s annual budget.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-Democrat-s-blueprint-for-the-election-12550853.php