If Someone Says They Want You In a Gulag, Believe Them

I have pointed out that when someone says they want to kill you, believe them. Similarly, when someone says they want to "deprogram" you, as in put you in "re-education camps" you should believe them. They are not joking. Barret Tillman has a post at the American Thinker that tells us exactly what Hillary meant when she made her remark during and interview with CNN's Christine Amanpour entitled Hillary's deprogramming scheme.

The railroad cars squealed to a stop where lines of police and soldiers stood by to receive the deplorable passengers. The human cargo -- nearly all middle aged to seniors -- debarked with their few permitted possessions and turned where the uniformed guardians directed. Those using crutches or wheelchairs took separate routes for greater efficiency.

Some of the deplorable detritus still sported red hats rather than yellow stars.

Welcome to Hillary Clinton’s Amerika.

Tillman points out that there are some issues that need to be sorted out. Of course, as he makes clear, the Left can overcome most of these by ignoring the Constitution and laws currently in place.

A few salient points that the former First Lady omitted from her deprogramming scheme:

- Establishing legality (perhaps a minor concern on the Left.)

- Providing considerable funding (perhaps a minor concern on the Left, which has run our debt north of an unrecoverable $32 trillion.)

- Establishing the institutional and physical infrastructure.

- Providing qualified deprogrammers for untold millions of Deplorables.

- Identifying the offenders other than by their red MAGA hats or bumper stickers.

- Convincing the Deplorables to board trucks and trains.

Since millions of Deplorables are not voluntarily going to board transport to deprogramming camps -- Clinton is appalled that they cling to their guns -- the process would immediately turn confused, messy, and loud.

Tillman notes that the size of the deprogramming camps is enormous, and housing that many people is similarly enormous:

Apart from the ethical and legal problems of deprogramming (easily overlooked by political zealots -- ask Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot among others), there’s the unavoidable matter of housing and/or detention space for the Deplorables. Of the 74-some million Trump voters, assume that 10 percent are declared eligible for deprogramming. That’s about the same number of illegal immigrants that Clinton’s party has allowed to violate U.S. sovereignty since President Biden took office.

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Leftists openly advocate draconian measures to advance their agendas. In 2019 teenage activist Greta Thunberg (“That Swedish truant”) infamously called for climate deniers to be put “against the wall.” When pinned down, she apologized in case anyone “misunderstood.”

Tillman notes that not a singal Democrat has condemned Hillary's statement. Clearly their silence means they agree with Clinton. This should concern all concervatives, whether Trump supporter or not.

If any Democrats condemned Clinton’s appalling suggestion, so far the statements seem to remain well hidden. No matter how phrased, my Google searches for the subject produce this:

“It looks like there aren’t any great matches for your search.”

That fact alone implies liberal tolerance for, or outright acceptance of, Hillary Clinton’s nascent American gulag.