Eugenics-driven policies in the United States were used to control populations of “undesirables”, such as minorities, prisoners, low-income and disabled people. Thousands were sterilized without consent. From Nature:
“At first, sterilization efforts focused on the disabled but later grew to include people whose only “crime” was poverty. These sterilization programs found legal support in the Supreme Court. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the state of Virginia sought to sterilize Carrie Buck for promiscuity as evidenced by her giving birth to a baby out of wedlock (some suggest she was raped). In ruling against Buck, Supreme Court Justice Wendell Holmes opined, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind....Three generations of imbeciles is enough” (Black 2003). This decision legitimized the various sterilization laws in the United States. In particular, California’s program was so robust that the Nazi’s turned to California for advice in perfecting their own efforts. Hitler proudly admitted to following the laws of several American states that allowed for the prevention of reproduction of the “unfit” (Black 2003).”
In the Nazi camps, deliberate neglect in response to disease and starvation hastened the prisoner deaths of Jews, political, Romany and other nationals.
When COVID began to skyrocket in New York and other Democrat-governed states this spring, the Trump administration’s response to pleas for support ranged from advising them to get their own PPE, ventilators and testing kits, subverting and confiscating their orders to blaming them for being irresponsible with state budgets.
New York Intelligencer: ”Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.
That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.”
COVID has disproportionately affected minority communities, the elderly and medically vulnerable. Trump-supportive states preemptively opened businesses and are opening schools while the virus is surging in their urban areas. Using COVID as a weapon for political mass killing and social upheaval is as calculating and callous as a eugenics program. Why is not the new media talking more about this? These are crimes against humanity.
Conservative Republicans, while sinking in the polls, and most importantly corporate supporters, will do their utmost to see this through — using COVID to take power, eliminate Social Security, Medicare and all social programs, while boosting police and military spending. We thought “it can’t happen here” — but it’s happening. Will voting be enough to stop the surge towards autocracy?