No, how do we stop the deportations, and get the people back from the prison in El Salvador? What can I do, today, to make it stop? Hell, what can I tell Sen. Cory Booker’s staff to have him do to make it stop?
I’m sick of this condescending shitting on anybody who does anything to resist that isn’t either striking the exact, right spot to fix everything in a single blow, or the leftist liturgy of mutual aid. There is no simple fix. It’s going to be a long slog, and take the accumulated efforts, big and small, of people everywhere. Symbolic efforts, even, because those can raise awareness, rally, and encourage people. Organizing against ICE is singularly ineffective where I am in a place that ICE isn’t active, and one, lone voice like mine can’t even get people off of corporate social media. Americans have such a herd mentality that they’re scared of anything that doesn’t have a logo and a brand name on it, so if their leaders act like nothing’s amiss, they’re not going to step out of line to challenge things. That’s what makes a Senator pulling a stunt like this so valuable. Tens of millions of people watched yesterday. Finally, a leader giving voice to the anger and unease so many of us have been feeling. Maybe it’ll catalyze more action.
Or, maybe not. But, Jesus Christ, take the ‘W’.
Which was always the plan. They were pretty open about it in the Hebrew press.