The public can get extremely outraged in a heartbeat. It only takes a coordinated press campaign and some touching pictures. It appears that
showing images of children consequently works. It does so now with
immigration as it did with
Nayirah in Iraq, with
Ghouta's Sarin, with
Alan Kurdi in Bodrum with
Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo (but not with the unnamed girl right of him) and it does again with "children in cages" now. It
didn't with
Abdullah Issa though. Nor
with kids massacred in Yemen which is continuously being bombed with our approval; we just #dontlookaway, don't we? [all together: "Yes, We Do!"]
We are led to be selective in our hate. Right and left's forces suddenly are summoned over and against each-other. They blame one-another over the topic at hand while all media write the same headlines as if
controlled by an invisible conductor. The hypocrites. Both of them, and so are you are if you're blaming
Trump solely because of these
cages.
The immigration, "zero tolerance" problem
is not a new one. It's been going on for a decade if not longer.
Mostly leftist or centrist forces - as some, laughably, would like to refer to Obama's reign - are genuinely mad. In a way they are right of course.
We should not live in a world where kids get separated from their parents while fleeing. We live in a globalized world for all these in charge so why fight the same rules when humans are involved and want to relocate on this planet?
Comment: The results can help explain why Putin has consistently referred to Western countries as its 'partners'. He is reflecting the desires of the people he represents.