Fear in America
Trump’s masked storm troopers have been known to detain a person who was shot while being carjacked; the wounded person’s problem was forgetting to pay a traffic ticket.
If someone who is not a citizen has an accident that is not their fault, and the police come, the person involved in the accident risks the possibility of being detained by the police while ICE arrives.
If one reports a crime, the police will ask for identification of the person who is reporting, so the person reporting a crime may become the victim of Trump’s deportations.
Psychologists have stated that children are afraid because of the color of their skin and cry that they may be picked up like their parents and deported.
Trump and his cult followers are not making America safe; they are installing the fear of the 1950s that many Americans felt of being accused of being communist sympathizers.
Not only do brown people have to fear, but Trump has now declared open season on those who disagree with him, not deportation, but the loss of a job, harassment by the federal government, are just two examples.
In the early 1950s, American leaders repeatedly told the public that they should be fearful of subversive Communist influence in their lives. Communists could be lurking anywhere, using their positions as school teachers, college professors, labor organizers, artists, or journalists to aid the program of world Communist domination. This paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State Department, the White House, the Treasury, and even the US Army. During Eisenhower’s first two years in office, McCarthy’s shrieking denunciations and fear-mongering created a climate of fear and suspicion across the country. No one dared tangle with McCarthy for fear of being labeled disloyal.
Any man who has been named by a either a senator or a committee or a congressman as dangerous to the welfare of this nation, his name should be submitted to the various intelligence units, and they should conduct a complete check upon him. It’s not too much to ask.Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1953
