It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that's a rock fact.
Muir's vision of immigration runs so opposite to the way it actually works that I don't know what it can actually be compared to. It actually makes 'welfare is the Democrats keeping Blacks on the plantation' seem coherent.
"I felt more free in Syria" -- Muir, like so many right-wing Americans who think the Biden administration is a "dictatorship!" has lost all sense of perspective and is ignorant about what goes on in the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteOnce you decide that not getting your way all the time is oppression, well, your perspective goes to hell fast.
DeleteI really do wonder how Muir and his readers would react if they were somehow forced to live for a year in, say, Finland. Or Sweden or Denmark or Norway. You get my point. Any of the social democracies that represent where American progressives wish they could nudge the US politically. Would they manage to convince themselves that they were surrounded by oppression and tyranny? That the people they encounter were destitute, downtrodden and degraded?
DeleteI know that answer is almost certainly yes, but darn if I can imagine just how they'd manage such mental acrobatics.
Ha! As someone who moved here from Europe, I would love to see that experiment. The cognitive dissonance they would have to deal with would probably make some heads explode. Just look at all those miserable, oppressed people who get two months of paid vacation every year...
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