As the trite and overused saying goes: "History repeats itself."

I'd even submit that a lot of people are influenced by the fears of past events, but very few of them actually are capable of exercising sufficient critical thinking to truly understand what the lessons of the past really meant.

I came to the US (from Denmark) to go to college in in Austin, TX in 1981, and I quite clearly remember being called "a communist" for no other reason than the geography of my birthplace...

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