I don't know how to get it through peoples heads how big of a lie our countries self-identity truly is.
American taxpayers are spending $450 million to build a torture camp in Florida. I want to see the humane options that were rejected and what they would have cost. Because I'm thinking there was something humane and cheaper that we could have chosen to do to solve this practically non-existent problem.
But no, no humanity in America. We can't have that. We will spend millions to torture people but clutch our pearls at spending a penny feeding children. Because that's the American way by golly!
The propaganda we have swallowed since we started singing “America the Beautiful” in preschool shields so many minds from comprehending how truly evil the things being done by our country really are.
We are NOT great. We are NOT just. We are NOT moral. And we sure as hell are NOT free. We have a piece of paper that says we are all these things, but that claim is no truer than anything reported by a Fox News talking head.
The fact that we have conned ourselves into believing that we are good people at least means we want that title. That’s a start. But if we ever want to actually such a title, we have to rid ourselves of the delusion that we already do and get to work on earning it.
Guard Smuggles Migrant's Letter Out Of Alligator Alcatraz
By Luis A., Detainee #421139 – Alligator Alcatraz, Florida Everglades Internment Camp https://www.americascoach.com/p/alligator-alcatraz-guard-smuggles-letter?utm_source=publication-search
Your thoughts are very like mine, my friend. But i have seen it for more than a half century, since i first travelled abroad and saw the difference between what we were taught to think of ourselves and the way we actually behave in the world. It was painfully embarrassing to a teeager. Far more so to an adukt who spent a lifetime trying to bring our behavior into line with what we profess.