A Nation of Immigrants 2
Alfred Doblin is disheartened by Republican rants about brown people.
Scary stuff. Maybe America is not 1933 Munich, but we are not a shining city on a hill, either. This rhetoric by smart, pragmatic politicians like Christie and Bush is dangerous. It shows how much both men will sacrifice to become president. They are willing to abandon all that was good about their public lives just to compete with a billionaire P.T. Barnum with straw-colored hair. Is this the only choice: The scarecrow or the straw man?
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September 5, 2015 at 10:29 am
Hoping WhiteManistan will suddenly come to its senses and divest itself of the hate, scapegoating and authoritarianism isn’t realistic. Empires decline and collapse. Nope, this sure isn’t “Munich in 1933” but we have a failed social democracy whose people share some of the very same weaknesses. WhiteManistan doesn’t have to field a majority to wreck everything, it just needs its crowd to vote as a block and for enough of everyone else to be fragmented, weak, apathetic or demoralized.
One goal has very obviously been achieved. WhiteManistan doesn’t see any of its adversaries as human beings. It’s hard to ignore although some are still trying their damndest to insist both sides are guilty.
I’m betting all dictatorships and authoritarian nightmares are filled with opportunistic people willing to abandon all principles and decency as needed to take advantage of any situation, just like here.
September 5, 2015 at 4:20 pm
You’re preaching to the choir, my friend.
The history of America’s immigration laws is writ in racist exclusion.