I want you to close your eyes for a second. I want you to imagine the biggest threat to your safety. Imagine the thing that keeps you up at night. Is it a spy? Is it a soldier with a big gun? Is it a hacker stealing your bank codes?

Well, open your eyes. According to the brave folks running our borders, the thing you should be scared of is a five-year-old boy named Liam.

Liam is five. He is in pre-school. When the government agents grabbed him, he was wearing a hat shaped like a blue bunny rabbit. He had a backpack with Spider-Man on it. That is the enemy. That is what our tax dollars are fighting. A kid who probably can’t even tie his own shoes yet. A kid who thinks a blue bunny hat is cool fashion.

We finally got some news that a judge ordered his release. We are supposed to clap now. We are supposed to say, "Wow, the system works!" But I am not clapping. I am just staring at the wall, wondering how we got this dumb.

The fact that a judge had to *order* this is the joke. It means that before the judge got involved, there were adults—grown men and women with badges and guns and salaries—who looked at a five-year-old in a bunny hat and said, "Yes. This is fine. Put him in a cell."

Think about the paperwork. Think about the meetings. Think about the sheer amount of wasted time. Someone had to process a pre-schooler like he was a criminal. Did they fingerprint his tiny hands? Did they take a mugshot of the bunny hat? Did they feel tough? Did they feel like heroes?

This is why I hate politics. This right here.

On one side, you have the "Law and Order" crowd. They love to talk about being tough. They love walls and fences and cages. They scream about safety. They tell you that if we are nice to people, the country will fall apart.

So, tell me. Does locking up a five-year-old make you feel safe? Does seeing a Spider-Man backpack in a detention center make you feel like America is strong? It doesn't. It makes us look weak. It makes us look scared. Only a coward is afraid of a little boy. If your version of a strong country involves bullying toddlers, your country is a joke.

Then you have the other side. The bleeding hearts. They are screaming right now. They are posting angry things on the internet. They are crying about how cruel this is. And they are right, it is cruel. But don't think they are any better.

They had power. They had chances to fix the rules. But they didn't. They like the issue more than the solution. They like to have something to be sad about because it makes them feel like good people. They use Liam's face to get likes on social media, but the machine that grabbed Liam is still running. It doesn't care who is President. It just eats people.

The system is a robot. It is a cold, dumb machine. It doesn't see a bunny hat. It doesn't see a child. It sees a number. It sees a file. And the people working inside the machine have stopped thinking. They just follow the rules. "The rule says detain him, so I detain him."

That is the scariest part. It isn't that these people are evil. It's that they are empty. They have turned off their brains. They look at a crying child and they don't see a human. They see a task to be completed before lunch.

Liam is free now. He gets to go home. But the damage is done. Imagine being five years old. You don't understand borders. You don't understand visas or green cards. You just know that scary men took you away and put you in a scary place. That stays with you. That doesn't go away just because a judge signed a piece of paper.

We live in a world where adults are useless. We pay them to run things, and they run them into the ground. We trust them to protect us, and they protect us from pre-schoolers.

Every single person involved in this should be embarrassed. The agents, the bosses, the politicians writing the laws, and us. Yes, us. We let this happen. We keep voting for these clowns. We keep buying into the fear.

So, sleep tight, America. The dangerous boy with the Spider-Man bag is gone. You are safe now. Just try not to think about how stupid we all look.