When I think about the immigrants coming to Ellis Island, lots of those people had nothing. They sold everything to afford the trip to the US and risked everything. Same thing today with immigrants coming to America literally on foot carrying their only worldly possessions, risking everything on a trip through the desert for the chance at a better life.
So when people say, “it’s not a practical solution,” yeah, I get it’s not ideal, but it’s possible to be poor and relocate. And if you’re in fear for your life, that means it’s something you need to do, regardless of how difficult it is.
Sure it’s possible for some people, my point is about the scale: a country of 350 million, of which it seems one half is being led to hate the other, can’t rely on emigration to a neighbouring country of 40m to escape the horrors of fascism. Even if the most potentially persecuted third escaped mainly to Europe (>100m somewhat dwarfs “wir schaffen das”, but just suppose …) that would leave the maga half to make a grand alliance with Russia (controlling most of the northern hemisphere food surplus), and professors in Toronto wouldn’t hold out long in that scenario… People have to stay to fight back, smartly (before this evolves to hard civil war).
When I think about the immigrants coming to Ellis Island, lots of those people had nothing. They sold everything to afford the trip to the US and risked everything. Same thing today with immigrants coming to America literally on foot carrying their only worldly possessions, risking everything on a trip through the desert for the chance at a better life.
So when people say, “it’s not a practical solution,” yeah, I get it’s not ideal, but it’s possible to be poor and relocate. And if you’re in fear for your life, that means it’s something you need to do, regardless of how difficult it is.
Sure it’s possible for some people, my point is about the scale: a country of 350 million, of which it seems one half is being led to hate the other, can’t rely on emigration to a neighbouring country of 40m to escape the horrors of fascism. Even if the most potentially persecuted third escaped mainly to Europe (>100m somewhat dwarfs “wir schaffen das”, but just suppose …) that would leave the maga half to make a grand alliance with Russia (controlling most of the northern hemisphere food surplus), and professors in Toronto wouldn’t hold out long in that scenario… People have to stay to fight back, smartly (before this evolves to hard civil war).