Spring is Here!

I am not even getting started about the illegal war but to say:

War crime.

One of my favorite classes in law school was International Law. My grade suffered because it was entirely based on a paper.  And I was a day late getting it in.  Was docked a whole letter grade.  I had this bad habit in law school of picking very ambitious topics, and mine was environmental refugees.  So yeah. My interest in it is both old and deep. Considering that I previously took international based political science classes.  Old and deep.  Anyway.

On to domestic tragedies.  

ICE at airports is not the issue as much as how ICE needs to be shuttered.  The successor unit needs a very limited jurisdiction.  And if it takes 90 days to reevaluate under stricter qualifications, the former ICE agents who want to work in the new unit, and screen newbies?  Then so be it.  Remove the pathological and artificial quotas and we can easily live with 90 days of hiatus.

I will just now jump to ordinary politics.   This meme well represents my current mood.  The Democratic party clearly is better and governing, and has a truly moral moral foundation. Which is a large part in the being better at governing part.  But these days they seem not good, sorta bad at politicking.  Particularly when some of the leaders still insist that being more centrist, and or populist is the answer.  Fuck that.   

Zohran Mamdani's success in getting elected Mayor of New York might not be the template for other areas and offices,  But he campaigned on progressive positions and got the rank and file in NY excited.  I know.  I was at that last big rally before the election.  It was a homecoming for Democrats who remember and never forgot what we are supposed to believe in, and do.  

We believe in letting people be.  We believe in equal justice for all.  Not just the people who are most like us.  And as opposed to the ignorant shit republicans say about us.  Most of us do not believe in free stuff just for the joy of giving free stuff.  What we actually believe in is paying the debt owed to groups and individuals who were denied equal justice and rights.  And we also believe in helping those who need help.  Don't be judgmental when you could be helpful.

And what we do it try to enact policies and govern to achieve that.