Constant crisis breeds despair

In light of today’s executive order regarding family separation, keep this in mind:

* We’ll still be holding families in camps and cages for an indefinite period of time for committing a misdemeanor.

* Children already separated from their parents will not be reunited while their parents are being processed.

* We’re still holding asylum seekers, though they’ve committed no crime.

* We’re still picking up people who have been in the country legally for 50 years and trying to deport them based on 20 year old misdemeanors for which they served their sentence (anger management classes and probation, in one case).

* If the travel bans were any indication, we’ll see a series of executive orders and court cases until something sticks.

Trump instigated this policy. He and his administration then variously said it didn’t exist, it was the law, it wasn’t that bad, it was the democrats’ fault, only Congress could address it, and that it was endorsed by the Bible.

They are panic-stricken, incompetent liars. Constant crisis is their only move, but it’s a doozy. It breeds contempt, despair, and confusion and allows this racist administration to continue to treat people as though they are beneath human dignity.

Good news: Today’s executive order only exists because we raised heck. Bad news: It will very likely be struck down since it seems to be in violation of existing court orders. There’s more confusion, chaos, and blatant civil rights violations to come in the next three weeks. So, as much as we’d all like a muzzle on Trump and a pillow under our own heads, keep going.