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Is Trump’s Immigration Ban a “Shock Event” Meant to Divide and Disempower Us?

Monday, February 6, 2017 13:23

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February 6th, 2017

By Lissa Rankin

Guest writer for Wake Up World

Like many, I was shocked at last week’s executive order banning travel into our country from seven Muslim nations. I was so shocked I wrote a blog post about how this violates the very foundation of what our country has always stood for. My post was a call to action to “We the People”, a Kali-esque attempt to remind us that we, as a country, have the opportunity to stand for love, unity, and equality of all beings.

Now, I’m not one to get seduced by conspiracy theories. They usually strike me as breeding fear and fueling the story of separation — us versus them, the good guys against the bad guys. But what if my blog was part of a strategic plan by the administration to divide and disempower We the People? What if I was playing right into a trap set by a regime that is strategically positioning to dismantle the checks and balances built into my beloved country, the ones intended to protect us from a dictatorship or make us vulnerable to fascism?

According to one history professor, Heather Richardson from Boston College, this is exactly how regimes take over a country—by engaging in a “shock event” like the one we’re still reeling from. What if this is what the administration actually wants—a shocked, divided nation tearing each other apart? What if my blog (and so many others like it) just fed right into the administration’s plan, creating more “us” versus “them”, in spite of my best efforts to call us to come together as One? What if Trump voters who support the immigration ban, people who have strong feelings about protecting our borders, making American well-being the #1 priority, and keeping out the terrorists, get triggered and angry when someone like me quotes the Declaration of Independence and challenges a move like the immigration ban?

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