When I was a kid-- back around the time I began to realize that government was the enemy of everything I valued-- I stopped believing that Russians were the problem. Yes, the Soviet government was my enemy, because it was a government, but I knew Russian people were not the same thing as the Soviet government.
I hoped they recognized the same was true about me.
If America got nuked, governments were to blame, not regular people.
I have slightly expanded that blame over the years to include people who imagine political government is somehow legitimate; government-supremacists. Their support empowers the political criminals, even if only by saying the "office" is legitimate even if the goon currently occupying it isn't.
I assume that in every place around the world, there are a lot of people who know government is a problem, who don't support anything it does, and who don't fall for the propaganda. Those people I can befriend.
"E mer gen cy ... Everybody to get from street"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3TpBfnaEmI
Hans
I somehow missed that movie. Might have to look for it.
DeleteIt doesn't get much "replay", but it was hilarious when I saw it released in 1966.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Winters (who inspired Robin Williams), Alan Arkin, and Carl Reiner ... a classic comedy from the height of the "cold war".
I couldn't find the full length movie on YouTube ... I did find a used DVD on eBay a few years ago for $5.
Hans