Given the political climate of this country in general, when being in opposition to a conceived threat is almost the modus operandi of the political system in order to promote its own agenda, little is being said of what has defined America in the past. That is, freedom of rights and those rights being protected for any and all.

The divisions being drawn regarding what makes one an American citizen are constantly being debated politically and in the press, with great rancor on both sides, like children fighting over who gets the last toy in the toy box.

Now when you watch the news or read the paper, I wonder if it is truly 2019 and I'm in America — or rather in Germany in 1929. We have what seem like concentration camps along the Mexican border with the most horrendous child abuse imaginable occurring. The racial divisions being promoted by our president make such a travesty possible, while the owners of the concentration camps make immense fortunes at the expense of what are perceived as lesser human beings. This is exactly how Hitler was able to promote his agenda in Germany prior to World War II, until the United States stopped it with force in the name of human rights.

We can't expect another country to stop this holocaust, and yet it continues. God help us all.

Marc Pizarro

Duluth







