The thing is, I know that having a job and a house and a mortgage doesn't really protect you very much, and sometimes it just traps you in an abusive situation.
Anyways, I was caught a bit unawares again, because sometimes when people were younger they seemed more empathetic to the plight of the less fortunate, and then as they got older they sort of seem to have done away with that part of themselves.
When I honestly said that the stuff that's happening with ICE stresses me out, she was defending herself for not thinking about it very much. For not thinking about it at all. Really. She doesn't want to think about it at all.
I could tell the conversation was starting to devolve a bit because at one point I asked her well, what if somebody who has to pay their mortgage decides to become a Nazi concentration camp guard?
She said she would try not to do that. She said she would try to do something else, like sweeping the streets. She said she would try.
I don't know what the church ladies discuss but she's probably hanging out with a bunch of church-going people who voted for the guy who's creating this mess. And they don't want to talk about it!
If I had known that would happen, I would have been prepared with a quote like the "First they came for so and so" by the Lutheran pastor.
"First They Came"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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