Kimball Shinkoskey

Woods Cross

Journalists are reporting almost a daily body count taken by President Trump out of the skins of our Caribbean neighbors.

In doing this, we are mimicking the relentlessly cruel Israeli daily body count of their neighbors we have seen in Gaza for the past two years.

This is how Christians and Jews love their neighbors?

Have you noticed? Not just far-right leaders in Israel and America, but their disciples in the Knesset and Congress are all good actors.

I’m thinking of Senate Majority Leader John Thune in his fiery finger pointing at those lurid Democrats responsible for all the evil of the current government shutdown.

The propaganda leader himself, President Trump, uses whatever lever of fantasy or intimidation he can grab hold of, like his recent threat to begin nuclear testing once again.

He also threatens to withhold federal money due to a city or a state if the people or politicians of that jurisdiction don’t do what he tells them to do.

This is both the Mafia way of life and the Communist way of doing business. If naked force is so effective, why doesn’t everyone just get on board with it?