01-06-2017, 11:52 AM
(01-06-2017, 11:03 AM)Anthony Wrote: But the German liberals of 1848 did not resist. They came to Wisconsin, and Iowa, and South Dakota.
And this is a nation of runaways - including my own great-grandparents, who couldn't stand how the Northern Italians looked down on them. So they came to New York City - and, no accounting for taste, Philadelphia! LOL
Same goes for the Jews, who fled pogroms in Poland/Belarus/Ukraine/Russia for New York - and from there, Miami.
And the Irish? Instead of fighting for their freedom from the British, they found Boston more to their liking.
...and where do we American liberals go?
Southern blacks really had to force change in their world to make their world tolerable.
We have no choice but to resist the slide into despotism here.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.