Monday, May 04, 2020

"Trump’s Nazification of the GOP is why there’s serious discussion of killing off the ‘unfit’--My Comment: What is Necropolitcs?

Necropolitics or power that is wielded and leads to the purposeful murder of many sacrificed on the alter of those the politicos deem "unfit" and by those who wield political control over them.  Trump owns, in my opinion, the dubious historical distinction of being a Nazi-like leader who is singling out for death, especially, in this pandemic but not exclusively so, those whom he and others in his noxious administration think are among the undesirables and therefore selectively "unfit" to live. This includes, of course, the purposeful killing of those who include mostly people who are black, brown, Hispanic, the nursing home aged, the sick, the disabled and selected others who oppose his polices and any whom he deems are lined up in opposition to him working for his electoral demise.

The politics that support his ruinous reign are many. They include locking up in cages Hispanics and their children separated from their parents whose only crime was to seek a better life in this once welcoming nation. In this COVID-19 pandemic he has used the Defense Authorization Act not to mandate companies make life saving devices such as PPE equipment.  Rather he is using the DAA for policies that will inure to businesses of CEO's such as meat packing companies, he deems necessary to keep the food chain from dwindling. Workers in meat packing companies work in some of the most unsanitary most egregious conditions found in this country and without any mandate for life saving implements to protect workers they die in large numbers. They are also in large part black, brown, and Hispanic people.  Trump said the CEO's cheered for his executive order commanding workers report for work irrespective of sanitary conditions or risk loosing unemployment benefits if they decide to protect their own lives and stay home. I am sure workers did not cheer because they would be cheering for their own impending deaths.

Moreover, the CDC or Center for Disease Control, a leading United States federal agency dedicated to protecting public health, issued their instructions for these companies to remain open by selectively watering down the language usually used giving certain owners flexibility as to how they can remain open.  Clearly Trump's mind was not for protecting the lives of those workers he deems less valuable but protecting the powerful business interests who either contribute to Trump's campaign and/or who care only for their bottom line.

It has been said that Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his night table.  I do not know if this is true but because of his right wing extremist inability to empathize with the plight of those not born lucky like he, I suspect, perhaps, it is.  Clearly his politics have killed many and in this era of the pandemic have killed thousands and counting.  He keeps mendaciously telling us what a fine job he is doing.  The numbers prove otherwise. 1,092,815 US cases and 64,283 US deaths largely but not exclusively persons of color and Hispanics.  

If Hitler was regarded by him as a "fine person" exemplar of how to govern, the historical veracity tells the true story about the destruction of World War II.  On Hitler's march to power 50 million human beings were slaughtered, millions of disabled, the sick, the mentally ill and innocent including 6 million Jews and millions more others -- those who did not fit into his white supremacist Aryan agenda.  They were slated for death in concentration camps and elsewhere the brutality of which beggars the imagination of those we deem civilized.  The master race was Hitler's doctrine and murder was his enforcer.  Trump calls American Nazis marching to the tune of "Jews will not replace us" "very fine people."  American Nazis and the KKK who just came out in support of Trump for his reelection will never be very fine people.  Those on the right are brutal, tyrannical, violent, racist, machine gun toting threats to democracy and all for which this nation has fought, bled and died.

The Trumpian sewer in which this nation has become trapped is a threat to those humanitarian values carefully etched over centuries in this nation to make us sometimes the envy and sometimes savior of the world.  How have we fallen so far from our political ideals of fairness and justice for all?  I suspect historians will be studying that for decades and studying how Trump became an indelible stain on our national soul.  If he is accorded an unthinkable second term, it will, I fear, be the end of this nation as we know it.  Quoting the Irish poet Fintan O’Toole the "World has loved, hated and envied the United States.  Now, for the first time, we pity it."  Now for the first time so do I!


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