Oh yes, Churchill was a towering figure in history, but parts of his character are strongly ambivalent, no doubt about it.
I was very sorry to hear about your predicament :-(
It is so much worse that what I have (high-functioning autism aka Asperger’s syndrome).
May your life nonetheless be as good as possible, with help and good grace from the Almighty.
Yes and maybe you have some Irish ancestors?
Not a few of them do not have the best opinion about the English, there have been all too many dreadful episodes in history involving the English in Ireland (Cromwell, Wolfe Tone, the potato famine etc.).
It’s the old sad story of neigboring nations not getting along with each other - as a German I know this all too well. No nation has more neighbors than we do :lol:
This is not even restricted to Europe: ask a Pakistani what he thinks about the Indians, or a Turk about the Persians or the Arabs.
Not to mention the “fraught relationships” between China&Japan or Japan&Korea, or maybe Malaysia and Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia or Thailand and Myanmar. No love lost between them either...
And I honestly agree with you about America’s immigration disaster (as author Peter Brimelow called it).
There has been a very interesting debate about the 1965 immigration law and its consequences on FR just recently.
As you said, I think about 300,000 immigrants to the US might be just right - including foreign spouses of US citizens.
Footnote: dear U.S. law makers, please take the bias towards extended family reunification out of the next immigration law :-)
And I am really sorry to hear that the American medical system has the same problem being swamped with immigrants from all over the world as ours does.
I think the legal stipulation in older American immigration laws, which maintained that immigrants were not allowed to become a public charge, was very justified...
Though, honestly, the situation in other countries of Western Europe is only marginally better. You realize this as soon as you read their press, visit blogs from these countries or talk to their citizens.
I’m afraid we Westerners are all in this mess together. So I heartily applaud your optimism. It’s what keeps us going even in straited times like these. Thumbs up :-)
As to the immigration situation we're being replaced. The Democrats want a subservient and dependent population that will keep them in office forever and too many gutless RINOS are complicit in this. Interestingly the Hart-Cellar Bill, which did away with our quota system was written by freshman Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. I've always felt that when it came to that bunch they didn't shoot enough of them.