They Don't Leave

In the 1930s, and particularly after the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, many people saw a threat and danger of persecution and worse from the Nazis and left Germany and other countries in central Europe for the United States or Great Britain. The emigres included famous people such as Albert Einstein as well as thousands of ordinary people who had decided it was time to get out.   From 1918 on many people saw what was happening in Russia and left the Soviet Union for other countries. Those emigres included famous people such as Sergei Rachmaninoff  as well as thousands of ordinary people who had decided to get out. After the Soviets occupied much of central Europe after World War II, thousands of people fled  the Soviet empire, even though the Soviets put up an iron curtain of walls, fences, and guard stations to keep people in and murdered thousands who tried to escape.  In the last seventy five years vast numbers of refugees have fled communist takeovers and governments in Asia and Latin America, and vast numbers of others have died trying.

The leftists of the Black Lives Matter organization claim that they live lives of oppression in a hated systemically and pervasively racist America whose white citizens believe their lives do not matter. America hating hard leftists of various sorts in this country attack  its government and society as morally  evil and operationally inferior and extol the superiority Marxist states. 

There are no barriers to a person leaving the United States. The exit door is open, and a person can walk through it any time he likes. There are dozens of countries in Africa and the Caribbean with governments completely controlled by black people where one can assume there would be no possibility of systemic anti-black racism or oppression of black people because of race. There are a few places left where the Marxist principles of the hard American left are put into practice – Cuba, North Korea, China partially. The opportunity is there.  Yet the leftists don’t leave.  It is a cosmopolitan world, and many Americans choose to live in foreign countries for various reasons, but one never hears of refugees from the United States. ( Given the prejudices of most of the people in the traditional media, one can assume such refugees would be treated as big news if there were even a good sized  handful of them.)

It is interesting and useful to think about why this is so and what it might tell us about our leftists.