Becoming Civilized

IF THOUSAND OF POOR, downtrodden refugees are trying to get into your country, for sheer survival, and your country is arresting them all and separating parents from their children, it could, not without justification, be asserted that your country is not civilized, but rather, barbaric. or, at the very least, it could be asserted that no matter how civilized your country is or claims to be, separating refugee parents from their children most assuredly is not civilized behavior, and that therefore, your country could stand a bit of improvement in becoming "more" civilized. Quite naturally, humans are extremely creative and clever devising justifications for their various forms of barbarity, cruelty, and general uncivilized behavior. In the United States, enslavement of Africans was justified on the basis that the slaves were being given the great blessing of Christianity, and wre being elevated above their savage status in Africa. The Africans themselves were never consulted. The Trump administration's policies concerning the Mexican border were initially justified by Trump by claiming that separating parents from their children was indeed bad law, but was the fault of democrats, and, alas, is still the law. He failed to mention that he has complete discretion concerning how to interpret and enforce the law. He seems to have given up that ridiculous argument, and now allow Attorney General Jeff "once a racist always a racist" Sessions to mouth rhetoric about the blame being with the refugees themselves, whose children would not be kidnapped by the U.S. government if they had the good sense to not try to enter the country illegally in the first place. Trump the demagogue slanders people by screaming, with his frothing, ranting followers, chants like "lock her up!", and "animals!" He should focus on his own barbaric behavior. Civilized people wonders how weak these justifications will become, and how low these people can go. Many republicans in Congress do not support the cruelty, and are discovering that their constituents don't either, in large numbers. So, there is hope that we the American people might force our country to change course, and to resume a more civilized behavior. There's got to be a better way.