Posted on 01/16/2021 11:39:35 AM PST by Political Junkie Too
West Berlin/East Berlin is a piss poor analogy... The East Berliners were incapable of picking up and moving to West Berlin, like the perverted POS communist-loving scum that move from cesspools of liberal dumbass like California, Illinois, New York, etc. and move to bastions of normalcy (Texas, Florida, etc.) to spread their dumbassery...
It's mostly the well-off in California and New York who make the news about leaving their states.
-PJ
Don’t forget to dump the tanks.
Great. Another wall to build.
It’s only applicable to people like me who can’t get out of their crappy liberal state because they literally can’t afford to move.
Illinois. It sucks here, but I don’t have enough money to flee.
Would be nice to be flying over one of their “peaceful rallies” and let go .....
C.R. MacNamara : You married a Communist?
Scarlet : He’s not a Communist. He’s a Republican. He comes from the Republic of East Germany.
From “One, Two, Three”
Interesting analogy. What’s remarkable about East Berlin is that East Berliners put up with it. Here you had the counterexample of freedom and prosperity literally within eyeshot, yet they put up with their circumstance. Blue staters (not all of them of course) go a step further and actually *like* the lockdown.
I have a piece of the wall too, given to me by my German friend from CA, who was born in Berlin. Really a good reminder.
I agree.
I think the blue staters who are radical Trump-haters see the lockdown as a strategic weapon to hurt him, but the rest probably feel like human shields or hostages.
While the East Berliners seemed resigned to their fate (except the few who tried to escape), I doubt there were any who felt they were "sticking it to the West" by being there.
-PJ
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