They never stopped coming for the Black folks. Gavin Newsom is grinning brightly as he sacrifices Trans people with his podcast's nazi guests. They purged the military of gays, of women, of people in the global majority. They sent bounty hunters to collect people without their papers. Being Latino made you a target, regardless of your legal status.
But YOU are safe, right? YOU don't commit crimes. YOU have your papers together. YOU have your shit together, so that means YOU won't catch any heat, right?
WRONG. At any moment, you could become disabled through no fault of your own. Maybe there was a patch of ice. Maybe the other car ran the red light. Maybe you just stepped wrong. Maybe that chronic condition you've been ignoring because you don't have health insurance is getting bad enough that you can't ignore it anymore.
Maybe there's a recession and you lose your job, along with everyone you know. Maybe you're not in your prime working age anymore. How are you going to get a job? What's going to happen if you can't come up with the money to pay rent?
Well, for a lot of Americans, you become what's known as "homeless". Other countries have tried to solve their issue of homelessness to one degree or another, and one sure-fire way to solve it is to give people cash money (universal basic income).
That kind of policy requires a society with a heightened consciousness, a level-of-wokeness, if you will. A level of consciousness not yet attained in the USA. Instead, here, we have a punitive carceral system, where those with illness or poverty are criminalized and incarcerated. This organizing principle is demonstrated in the orange clown's latest executive order to criminalize homelessness and mental illness.
The latest executive order from the orange clown fascist is to criminalize people suffering from homelessness and people suffering from mental illness. The "solution" to this "problem" is to round up people and ship them off to camps. When you read the text of the executive order, it doesn't explicitly mention concentration camps, but since that's what they're doing with undocumented people, it doesn't take much of a leap to see how the fascist regime would do the same to the mentally ill or to people suffering from homelessness. Just read the first paragraph:
The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally large share of homeless individuals reported suffering from mental health conditions. The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats
The order never talks about what is the "root cause" of homelessness, because fascists aren't concerned with the root cause of homelessness. They just want power. If they were concerned with the root cause of homelessness, there are proven solutions. But instead of proven solutions to homelessness, we're going to get another fascist concentration camp.
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