09-13-2021, 10:53 AM
And, yes, "Red America" will have a brain drain.
Think of Spain after Franco took over. Before then, Spain was a cultural innovator. Franco's regime was the sort in which stupidity, unwilling to question the merits of the official faith, and blind obedience became the keys to survival. Many Spaniards emigrated, including (although this would have tragic consequences, as the Nazis and the Vichy regime would persecute them and even send many back to Spain for sure execution) to France. If they were fortunate they went to Britain or the New World where they were quite welcome.
After WWII, Spain was simply a place for an inexpensive holiday for people from richer countries. It got the rap as a backward country... well, it had a backward regime, did it not? Creativity could be a problem, as Franco had a medieval view of the world except for weapons, finance, and industrial technology. That sounds much like "Red America".
Think of Spain after Franco took over. Before then, Spain was a cultural innovator. Franco's regime was the sort in which stupidity, unwilling to question the merits of the official faith, and blind obedience became the keys to survival. Many Spaniards emigrated, including (although this would have tragic consequences, as the Nazis and the Vichy regime would persecute them and even send many back to Spain for sure execution) to France. If they were fortunate they went to Britain or the New World where they were quite welcome.
After WWII, Spain was simply a place for an inexpensive holiday for people from richer countries. It got the rap as a backward country... well, it had a backward regime, did it not? Creativity could be a problem, as Franco had a medieval view of the world except for weapons, finance, and industrial technology. That sounds much like "Red America".
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.