Who is a domestic terrorist? Is it the person who pulls the gun and cocks it? Or the person who steps in front of that gun? Is it the person who skirts the law to earn some money to feed their family? Or the person who vilifies and dehumanizes them? Is it the person who rips a mother from her children? The person who sends others to a gulag in a country they have never visited? The person who drags a woman from her car by her legs, who shoots a woman in the face for the supposed crime of getting in the way? 

Who is terrified? The people who journeyed far from home because of the economic conditions exacerbated there by foreign powers? The people who crossed jungles and deserts on foot in search of a better life for their families? The people who climbed over fences and under razor wire, looking for a place of safety? Or the people who looked at them and thought, “They are coming for me. They are coming for my job. For my family. For our safety. For our honor.” 

I can tell you who isn’t terrified: the corporatists, the wealthy elites, the billionaires. They’re laughing. Laughing at how they pull the strings of the media, of politics, at how they get the rest of us terrified of one another. Because if one working man sees another as an enemy, he is distracted from the real enemy. If we working people are staring panicked at one another, we aren’t looking at them: the corporatists, the wealthy elites, the billionaires. We won’t see – or won’t care – how they squeeze us all for one more drop. How they nickel and dime our wages. How they deny our insurance claims. How they pay politicians for lower and lower tax rates, then claim we don’t have money for anything but the most outlandish military in the history of the world and a police force that rivals the greatest autocracies in history – the military to unleash on the enemies outside and the police to unleash on the enemies within: us, the working people. 

So who is a domestic terrorist? I think you can figure that one out.

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