Mean People Suck

That was a popular bumper sticker back in Fairfax, California.  And they do.  And unfortunately, mean people are now running our government.

The U.S. was a major funder of reconciliation efforts and programs set up to ease tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.  The U.S. also funded programs for Palestinians like hospitals on the East Bank.  No more.  We no longer give any aid to Palestinians.

Migrant parents are being denied contact with their children because of legal problems, often minor and sometimes decades old.  We are not talking about child abuse or murder, but rather such crimes as traveling with an open container in 2005.  To read other examples of downright meanness and parental separation see <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/migrant-children-ineligible-reunification-families.html>.

Both of these policies are beyond mean spirited.  They are ugly and vicious.  Supposedly the U.S. government is a democracy in which the citizens run the government.  That means both of these policies are carried out in our names.