I’m a dairy farmer. A lot of my friends and associates are too. Our community is built on immigrant labor.
This is wrecking shit. The paranoia is at levels you cant imagine. The workers are scared. The owners are scared. Regardless of income level or status, everyone is stressed to say the least.
The only consolation I have had was, just this past weekend, I got to look at my neighbor who was stressing and venting about what he will do when ice shows up. And I looked this man dead in the eyes and told him “you got exactly what you voted for, and exactly what you supported”
And he looked at me and agreed. “Yeah, you are right” he was defeated. To say that to me is an acknowledgement of absolute defeat.
It’s funny It sounds nice to think “I warned you”. That smug superiority sounds good in your mind. It’s vindication. It’s another thing entirely to watch you community terrified to move because they collectively fucked up. Vindication doesn’t help the people kidnapped from your community. The destruction of generations of work and mutual cooperation.
What a fucking shitty consolation prize.
If the usa turned inward on itself any more it would become a black hole.
I’m no fan of dhs. But on a national scale. On a world scale, This is insane and dangerous. It’s mind blowing how badly our government is behaving and the short sightedness of it all. Multiple countries at war or on the verge of war. Elimination of usaid and most foreign aid. Intelligence organizations decimated by layoffs and budget cuts. Internal conflicts rising and dissent growing. A paramility forming that can ignore our internal rules and arrest people on a whim…
This is what happens when the people in charge have no idea what they are doing.
This will take decades to sort out. Maybe more. And we have years more of exactly this sort of behavior.
The American empire is falling. Torn apart from the inside by greedy madmen.
As an American, I can’t say I’m thrilled about it. But God damn it is happening quickly.