… Liberation theology to point out administrations (and Congress, and states) have always disfavored citizens (and non-citizens, including natives and those forced to migrate here, or away because of statehood; or gender, sexual orientation, economic status), and now its an administration just blindly functioning on “those who are not with us are against us,” which includes white middle class people, and murder? And an utterly complacent, when it’s not actively supportive, Congress?Here Noem says the quiet part out loud.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 14, 2026
Trump's DHS is not a traditional Cabinet agency, a part of the U.S. government established and constrained by laws, regulations, and court rulings.
DHS is now an arm of Trump and MAGA, used against citizens the administration disfavors. https://t.co/yNxgJg2Ltb
So, as ever, it’s a matter of whose ox is being gored. Which is a good way of looking at liberation theology and how it challenges us. The preferential option for the poor is about making us pay attention to the people we so easily ignore. The ones Luke tells us are ptochoi. As in Makarioi oi ptochoi. “Congratulations, you poor! God’s domain belongs to you!”
You’d think that would raise their profile, at least among Christians. But people tend to prefer the “thou shalt nots” over the “congratulations”. Maybe because we prefer to sit in judgment rather than uplift someone who is NOK.
As Lewis Carroll observed (under very different circumstances): “Such is human perversity.”
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