A lot to think about here.
I remember as a kid watching World at War with my mother and being horrified. Then later, learning more about it, you, naturally ask--why didn't they just leave?
Of course, as an adult, you understand better why they didn't leave.
1. They believed it wouldn't get "that bad" or, surely, they'd be stopped.
2. You fear losing everything you have or starting over in a strange, foreign place.
The questions, I think, one should be asking himself right now is do you stay or do you flee.
And if you flee, what is your trigger? What is the event that makes you pull the trigger (figuratively speaking for my "friends" who may be "reading" along)
I used to say if people start disappearing. Now, I am adding cancellation of the EBT monies and if something happens to Cruz to that short list.