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Friday, February 21, 2014
The Present Disconnect With Reality in the United States
I am viewing
a BBC show Graham Norton and the American Actress Julianne Moore is describing
how she took on dual citizenship as a British Subject in 2011 in honor of her
Scottish grandmother. I have to wonder why people needs two citizenships unless
they are hedging their bets and they or their children more likely will need
citizenship other than American to herd onto some refugee boat bound for Europe
in ten or twenty years. Or if you retire in the UK you can get NHS healthcare
allotted to all citizens there. You do not get social security shipped off
shore if you are not an American citizen and do not remain living in the United
States etc. The rich hedge their bets
and arrange for the cheapest taxes. It is all part of the game of life I
suppose.
I have to
wonder when and where this dual citizenship came up in our culture. It slipped
in the back door when Israel, an ally, gave automatic Israeli to all ethnic
Jews worldwide as a means to prevent another refugee bottleneck that happened
in Europe in the nineteen thirties when Jews were denied exits visas from
Germany and denied entrance visas all over the so called civilized world. That
as many as a million Jews probably had the means, but the not political clout,
to leave Germany and Europe when the Fascist ethnic cleansing thing started.
And I have also read that Hitler was never rabidly anti-Semitic until he
settled in Catholic Bavaria and Munich where the anti-Semitic rhetoric was
necessary to build the vote for the National Socialist Party.
That political
expediency for some wealthy paranoid minority dictated that so many millions
were directly targeted by the Fascists. What bothers me at times is that the
Public Relations of the Jewish lobby push the six million deaths of the
Holocaust and few realize that twice that number probably perished in total and
included political prisoners, gays and other ethnic minorities like the
Gypsies.