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Originally Posted by newtovenice
When the US falls there will be nowhere else to go.
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That's not necessarily true.
The Nazis were some of the most unwelcome people who every tried to emigrate, but many managed to do so.
The smartest and most clever of them were able to move to their old enemies homelands, once they could either hide their pasts very well and/or able to prove their worth and usefulness to their newly adopted homelands.
Even the dunces among them found shelter in Paraguay, even after Argentina had turned them down.
Not a single one of those people immigrated legally. Every single one of them needed to have a bunch of forged authentication to leave Europe. Except for Paraguay, where facsism still ruled with an iron hand.
Their emigration didn't ever provide the Nazis a very happy life, no matter where most of them ended up. The more prominent they were in Nazi leadership, the worse the remainder of their lives became.
But the Nazis were quite ill-prepared to emigrate anywhere.
Even when given official approval, they couldn't be Nazis any longer, ever. Those lucky few had to drastically change everything they once had believed was right and wrong, and if those things couldn't change, they had to make everyone around them believe they had changed.
For most, that was an impossibility. So even though they were able to survive, they did so by scraping by as best they could, as permanent outcasts in their new homelands.
Forced into isolation and a life of silence. With none of their brotherhood around to keep them company.
It was a life that was better than one spent in prison, but not by very much, as the Paraguayan jungle is nature's own prison.
Mexicans are always going to be able to spot an American in a split-second. So will Canadians.
Both countries know far, far more about us and our ways than we know of them and their ways.
The one thing I soon learned when spending time in Canada was all Canadians are extremely proud of their nation.
We Americans are like cousins to them. The relatives who we are sometimes happy with or irritated over. Cousins don't affect the family like brother and sisters do.
So I avoided saying anything a Canadian might take as a comparison.
If a Canadian asked for a comparison, I would answer, but carefully; I never tried to make America seem to be superior in any way to Canada whenever I spoke.
Their politics are very different from ours, and they know ours quite well. As long as I simply asked questions about theirs, openly ignorant as I was, they were happy to answer without any rancor. They understand our national ignorance very well indeed.
Very few were curious about our politics. The general attitude was all Americans are half-crazy and extremely irresponsible with ours.
If I was to go to Mexico, I would be like my brother. He's gone down there several times, mostly to visit a friend who's made himself a second life there. After talking to his buddy, he was advised to learn enough Spanish to be able to get on the correct transportation, and to be extremely polite to any old people while traveling.
It was a big help to know some locals who are from Mexico for my brother. He was coached on everything he needed to learn by someone's old grandma, and he's always gotten along well in Mexico since.
Mexico does still like Americans, but they especially like Americans who can be at ease in their culture. Some language really helps build commonality. Spanglish works down there.
And the same goes in Canada, where their English is Canadian. I had to learn how to avoid making some stupid mistake in what I said, even when I was speaking their language.
Would I ever want to start over in either country?
Nope.
Only if I could turn time back to 20 or 30 years in my past. That past was a more peaceful time for all 3 countries.
Each now is troubled in it's own way, and for me, the trouble I am familiar with is better than the trouble I don't know anything at all about.
I have too much investment in my life here to abandon now. So fleeing is out of the question for me.
I have fled before, but fleeing never ended up to be a good solution for my problems. Fleeing them only compounded them.
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