I’m a little angry. All I see lately are people and the organizations they support trying mercilessly to stop goodness and a decent society, equality in our systems and communities, from happening. Corruption.
And it’s not just ICE in the states. It’s the same attitudes here. There is no fair due process or dignified advocacy for marginalized groups, especially if they don’t have money. They are being forced - by various cruel processes - onto the street, abused in various ways, maybe use drugs for some relief and get caught up in the social, and literal, poisons surrounding them, and many get killed by that one way or another. Society has little real compassion for doing something both bold and caring, about it. They defer to the empty shell of what used to be a social system - sold out and largely privatized and turned into a “fast food” replacement for what was once robust - and as long as they don’t need it, are content to overlook that it isn’t working (I just did with WhyCzar because she’s doing more she can do on her own and what else can I, who has challenges with it all myself, suggest? I understand why she doesn’t have confidence in it) - track 2 MAiD is just an excuse to accelerate it.
Anyone who can’t thrive in a harsh environment - and it can be different types of harsh for different people - with little support, is at risk. Anyone homeless is at severe risk. Anyone whose voice is oppressed or subjugated by various forms of arbitrary power is at risk. That is the exact opposite of a decent society and it just hurts so much to see that we’re like that ghost town - we had a good thing going but we didn’t invest in the future - now it’s abandoned - it’s awful that Canadians with means can let it happen and not get more vocal about demanding better. Like people are standing up to ICE. We may not have visible paramilitary in our streets, rounding people up (not yet anyway) but injustices are happening with impunity daily.
