[lbo-talk] Sad Story

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 26 16:25:52 PDT 2003


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Brian:
>> Oh, my God, we're living under the NAZIS? Why didn't anyone TELL me?
>How
>> could I have been so easily DELUDED by the lack of storm troopers,
>> Waffen-SS, and Gestapo officers running our lives? How could I have
>> MISSED the CONCENTRATION CAMPS just outside of Philadelphia? Why did I
>> not NOTICE the sudden disappearance of all my Jewish friends? Oh, my
>> GOD, how could I have IGNORED this for so long?
>
> Brain, I could tell you that US has the largest prison population among
>developed countries,

Hey, maybe you're both right. There are some wonderful things about life in the U.S. and some absolutely horrible things too. It's a big country, full of contradictions. Sometimes it's tolerant and liberating, sometimes it's bigoted and repressive. Why's it got to be heaven or hell?

Doug



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