This is what America does, kids. This is what it has always done, always stood for, or always allowed to happen. It turns suffering into money and influence. Not any particular politician or party, the whole thing. The system itself. This is just one more episode in a long history of colonial genocide, for the US and the west as a cultural whole. When elites talk about ‘law’ or ‘democracy,’ they are only talking about the mechanisms of social permission and apologism to do things like this.
Almost every human state or empire has followed this pattern, so there’s no real alternative right now. It’s just that the west has been at it for so long, the interests and prejudices and cults of ideology around supremacy, social Darwinism, identity exceptionalism, are so entrenched, that with the help of mass media, surveillance, and corporate-state-backed weapons proliferation, they have perfected the model. A perfect flowchart of exploitation, extraction, eradication, suffering, and death.
If you’re running around waving any state’s flag or running cover for elites, you are not only complicit in that model, you are an active participant. It wants to collapse. We should let it. We should hasten it. That is the only way we will ever know true justice or safety as living things. This is unjust, unsustainable, and unnatural. We will never be able to vote or litigate our way to a better world, because those tools were made by and for the elite, who care nothing for life or for justice.