Now that the Solid Gold Man has won the New Hampshire Primary, it's worth considering his views on suffering children.  Last weekend he told some of his supporters that he could look into the faces of Syrian War refugee children and say, "No, you can't come here [to America]."
     In the past, he's characterized the Syrian refugees as predominantly "big strong men," and has wondered how they're able to pay for the cell phones he's seen in their hands in random news footage.  These men, I guess, are all potential ISIS ringers seeking entry into Western Europe and the United States to carry out "Trojan Horse"-style attacks on welcoming nations too liberal for their own good.  Apart from the argument's base stupidity, and assuming he's never had to look into the eyes of a child who has witnessed death and destruction on a vast scale, we can't know, anymore than does he, what Trump would actually feel if he met a real war refugee--and where, exactly, would this take place?  On the road from Aleppo to Turkey?
     Trump has expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin (brutes respect each other), whose air force bombs positions in and around Aleppo, aiding Bashar al-Assad's besieging ground forces, creating that city's human flow northwards to Turkey in the first place.  An all out assault on Manhattan's Trump Tower would doubtless lead to its eponymous inhabitant's flight, but he can find some other place in America to set up his operation--south, by the Mexico-U.S. border, perhaps, where he can oversee the building of his dream wall.  He estimates now it'll cost about eight billion dollars.  He's said his administration will make the Mexican government pay for it.  He has just as much chance of accomplishing that as the nations of Southeast Asia have of making the U.S. government pay to clean up the vast remaining death garden of unexploded munitions left from the Vietnam War era, including the wars waged against the peoples of Laos and Cambodia.
     It's been asked, regarding past alarming historical trends, how a civilized and cultured nation can embrace intolerance, savage-mindedness, cruelty, and degenerate moral values offered by "strong" leader-types.  The land that produced the great novelist Robert Musil also gave the world Hitler.  Try mixing the delicate beauty of Viennese composer Franz Schubert's pieces with the image of destitute young Adolf Hitler, before World War One, walking the same great city's streets, generating ideas from a fertile zeitgeist of racialism to eventually change the world because people two decades later voted the son of a bitch into office.
     In other words, good and bad people might live in the same neighborhood.
     Brute culture in America has grown since 9/11.  Callousness towards human rights has been encouraged by politicians and pundits who now speak openly of torturing people as a solution to supposedly uncovering the truth, when any responsible interrogator insists, based on experience, that torture doesn't work, unless the goal is to brutalize.  Last Saturday's Republican presidential debate (which Trump, who used to disparage weekend "low-ratings" debates) featured as a low spot Ted Cruz speaking enthusiastically about waterboarding.  Donald Trump topped, or bottomed, that by saying as president he would bring back waterboarding and go way beyond it, not specifying what techniques would engorge his sadistic patriotic prick.
     Never assume that with the examples of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Rwanda in 1994, that authority figures from civilized nations won't speak and act as if they're willing and able to lead technologically driven mass slaughters and practice gross human rights abuses, all in the name of security, with right hand over heart, never mind the screams.
     Donald Trump chooses to see beefy ISIS agents using the convenient pretext of Russian bombing and other long-standing chaotic situations to begin their treks to try to ruin our way of life.  I see women and children, men too, dealing with a situation I've never had to go through, but I can imagine what it might be like to have to leave home because of massive explosions, the constant threat of violent death, the ever present possibility of losing loved ones, the lack of supplies, the sense that all this tumult goes on while diplomats talk and arms dealers profit.
     To tell a child who is not responsible for any of the above-mentioned conditions he or she can't find sanctuary from wandering and death illustrates the slow-cooking evil of Donald Trump, his fellow like-minded office seekers, and those supporters of theirs who, unwittingly or not, embrace the annihilation of Syria by people like Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin, and ISIS, with Obama and every nation militarily involved there doing their ill-defined parts in rearranging a mess out of a mess.

                                                                                Vic Neptune