The Hijacking of the Democratic Party and the Making of a Republican

This is not a political analysis. This is a grateful immigrant’s perspective on America in decline.

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Not that the republican party hasn’t been hijacked by the military-industrial complex, but at least the republicans pretend to defend America’s sovereignty. The democrats have publicly set out to hand it over to international organizations unencumbered by American (or anyone else’s) democratic participation.

I was growing up at the very end of the Soviet Union. In their early thirties, my parents looked confidently into the bright future. I had been forever programmed for the best possible future by the wonderful children’s movie A Guest from the Future. My parents’ enthusiasm infected me as well. The whole country was abuzz with glasnost and perestroika.

Back in the late 1980s, my parents had no desire to live somewhere other than the Soviet Union. Neither did I. We enjoyed the best of all possible worlds. Not that we knew about the rest of the world…