I'm not sure I've ever felt worse as a human being in my lifetime. [View all]

[JMCKUSICK]

Today's SC decision re: birthright citizenship, when combined with the "no due process decision from Monday, has destroyed the United States of America as we all know it.
All my personal issues are taking their own toll on me no doubt, but the despondence I feel comes from the loss of what this country has meant to generations of people. I came to America as a 9 1/2 year old on July the 4th, 1976 to live after spending my first 9 plus years in Germany. Yes, I was born a US citizen, but it doesn't change the pride I felt being here in this country that really was the example to the world and being able watch and grow up amid living examples of America's exceptionalism through her struggles for a more perfect union.
I sit here feeling helpless and realizing that I'm feeling profound grief. The hopelessness I feel right now knowing that this will give a steroid injection to Stephen Miller and Trumps' worst impulses just crushes me as i imagine each life being uprooted and destroyed for purely evil reasons.
I cry at the cruelty that I know now awaits so many people, HUMAN BEINGS, that will be subjected to untold acts of pure hatred by what will surely become trumps SS. These things will happen virtually in broad daylight and the victims will be in some country that they have zero connection to, with no means to support themselves, and God forbid, a prison cell if the trump people paid them enough. For what? For having the wrong skin color.
I'm ashamed of who America has become. I know it's not all of us, but it is the people who have the unfettered power to cause that harm and so much more.
I'm coming to believe that our elected representatives must have some degree of psychopathic tendencies, (Including Democrats) because we've been listening to politicians talk about these issues like we're discussing our favorite brands of laundry detergent. You know, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree that Tide is better than Arm&Hammer etc...
Even the people we trust in the media, (Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell etc...) are guilty of "discussing these events" in a detached way that has numbed us to this shit for years now.
I wrote months ago that we need to shut it down, full stop. Our power comes from what we do together, and the notion that logic and negotiation will get us through this is proving more absurd by the day. Yes, if we stop spending money, people will be harmed. The question we have to ask ourselves is this: Are we really willing to let trump commit these atrocities defending our limited action by saying we don't want people to lose their jobs or hurt our country economically? If 3% of us stop spending money on Mondays, another three% on Tuesdays etc and most importantly, stop ALL discretionary spending, the impact on the economy will be profound and change inducing.
We need to stand with our fellow humans and agree to exit our comfortable existences to save them from their grotesque fate.