National Emergency Noise

The notion of a national emergency has been reduced to noise. The term evokes images of Pearl Harbor, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain. New images are replacing those, of helpless migrants seeking refuge and resettlement after their societies have been destroyed by America's drug demand and political interference.

Children are jailed. Their parents are separately detained and thrust into containment centers--concentration camps. Racism is rife. A wall is in the works. Totalitarianism and empire-building are on display, echoing Stalin and Hitler. Our Oedipal president constantly parades around, trying to prove he is a big man.

This shame will be hard to outlive.