dagwolf: unbossed: shitrichcollegekidssay: mediamattersforamerica: Cannot believe this just happened
dagwolf: unbossed: shitrichcollegekidssay: mediamattersforamerica: Cannot believe this just happened. The conservative kingmaker who regularly hosts major GOP presidential candidates just asked—100% seriously—"What’s wrong with slavery?“ “As of this date’ – whenever we decide to do this – 'as of this date, 30–’ this is a totally arbitrary number, ‘30 to 60 days from now anyone who is in the state of Iowa that who is not here legally and who cannot demonstrate their legal status to the satisfaction of the local and state authorities here in the State of Iowa, become property of the State of Iowa.’ So if you are here without our permission, and we have given you two months to leave, and you’re still here, and we find that you’re still here after we we’ve given you the deadline to leave, then you become property of the State of Iowa. And we have a job for you. And we start using compelled labor, the people who are here illegally would therefore be owned by the state and become an asset of the state rather than a liability and we start inventing jobs for them to do.” “Well how would you apply that logic to what Donald Trump is trying to do? Trying to get Mexico to pay for the border and for the wall?” “Same way. We say, ‘Hey, we are not going to make Mexico pay for the wall, we’re going to invite the illegal Mexicans and illegal aliens to build it. If you have come across the border illegally, again give them another 60-day guideline, you need to go home and leave this jurisdiction, and if you don’t you become property of the United States, and guess what? You will be building a wall. We will compel your labor. You would belong to these United States. You show up without an invitation, you get to be an asset.” People are missing the fact that what he’s proposing can already be done completely legally if those people are convicted of a crime. Remember what the Constitution says: Amendment XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Perhaps, but that’s just the excuse a fascist needs, right. What he’s doing is fascist because it’s scapegoating. He’s scapegoating immigrants and refugees who do contribute to society with their labor and rent both of which are more routinely exploited by landlords and employers than anybody would consider just. So, you know, we can permit him a letter-of-the-law excuse only if we are willing, even with the problematic vague language in the constitution, to permit fascism. -- source link