I understand what you’re saying about Russia. Georgia survived the Soviet era with their own culture but many occupied countries did not. It’s sad to see the people hurt so badly by many years of oppression. It’s also sad to see them taking it out on you. It’s not ok.
I also wonder what we should do here in the USA?
Where can I go? No government is any more holy, moral or polite than any other. There are stronger governments, and weaker governments. That is all. There is no reason to leave a strong evil and hurry up and pay taxes to a weak evil.
Some people have tried to leave totalitarian places. I think of the beautiful but really sad story of the Lykov family. They left Russia, but they died alone. They died free, but their death made no difference because they didn’t influence anyone around them to be better and to live more and love more.
We wonder why people hate us and tell us to go home to the USA. My tax dollars pay for us to be the largest exporter of war in the world (more invasions than Russia in the last hundred years). We have more foreign military bases than anybody else ever (more than the British empire). We drone strike families. We have basically purchased Ukraine with billions of dollars of debt they can never repay us. We occupied many countries in the Mideast simply because some criminal lives in that country and we want to kill him and his family.
I say “we.” I live in the USA but the USA isn’t me. I chose to stay here. I am an individual. I don’t want to do any of those things. I want to be nice to everyone I can. There are many people right here that need help.
It’s sad that you were discriminated against in Georgia, why? Because of your hair color? 😢 If you hate someone because of their hair color, you are an individual but you are just as bad as the governments of 1940s Europe. They hated people because of their hair color too. We will never change the governments. We can only change ourselves. We start by seeing people, not nationalities l!
Jed
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