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In reply to the discussion: A Wake-Up Call for US Liberals [View all]appalachiablue
(44,022 posts)tied down for several years. A couple years ago found myself restudying that period in history, didn't realize why till the obvious hit me in the face. Told my sibling whose son was headed to college that he should consider somewhere outside the US, like Canada, or at least Oregon or VT for the future. That in the US it was starting to resemble what people who fled Germany early realized.
But the parents aren't as informed, have to feel the pain before they believe types, one is brave but hard-headed, and frankly out of selfishness they want their child around rather than what's better for his future. The boy also has a fairly serious and chronic medical condition, although he possesses high intellect, drive, even temperament and other attributes.
Heard Canada's PM thinks he's RR, esp. with the current boom oil industry; visited South America when very young but don't know enough about it now. Exploring alternative options for us is definitely a reality. In my brief time at DU there have been a couple others who plan to depart. Not alarmism about concentration camps, we already have them with the vast, exploitive incarceration system that's only going to expand.