Living with the US Taliban: courage or stupidity?

[Boomer]

I've read numerous debates on DU about the advisability of leaving the U.S. for life abroad. Some call that decision cowardly, urging that we all stay and fight the good fight and calling anyone who leaves a coward or a quitter. Of course, most of those people were straight and don't face the intense hatred that is directed my way by the RR.

Did these same debates rage in the Jewish community as Hitler rose to power? They must have, because some Jews sent their families out of harm's far enough in advance to keep some measure of their fortunes, while others waited until they got out with the clothes on their backs.

But most waited too long.

So every time I read about the Fundie agenda to restrict our civil liberties, laced with vitriolic asides about eliminating us entirely, I wonder at what point did Jews stop becoming "cowards" for fleeing Hitler? Are you a quitter because you didn't stay until you were shipped to a concentration camp?

My partner and I seriously considered moving to Canada to escape what we see as an increasing risk of an American holocaust against gays. We finally decided that our health was simply not up to the hard work of a relocation, and we aren't scared enough (yet) to walk away from everything we own and drive north only with what we can pack in the car.

I don't think it was particularly good decision, but it was a practical one, based on the hope that America will hold the line against a "final solution" to the gay "problem".

Unfortunately, I won't know whether I've been courageous or stupid until the final die is cast....

[electropop]

1. The difference this time

is that the non-fascists are gradually banding together, to fight Bushitler side by side. Hitler persecuted Jews, gays, Gypsies, and others, but from what I have heard, they didn't stand together, and that may have made some difference.

The other thing is that in this case, 60% of the population oppose Bushitler and his policies, and we are beginning to push back. His own side is already beginning to crumble (e.g. the bipartisan sponsors of the bill to force Bushitler to prepare a schedule for troop withdrawal). The tide has turned. We need every activist voice we can get; it's working!