An anecdote regarding American politics from one Russian immigrant’s POV :
I had a dental appt. the other day. My dentist is from Russia, and she remembers life under the Soviets. She thinks it’s silly for a country as rich as ours to be calling on people to lower the thermostat and eat less. She remembers real deprivation, not the kind of made-up stuff Obama and others are calling for in order to make the rest of the world like us better.
Not surprisingly, she doesn’t like Obama- she likens him to Jimmy Carter. And she doesn’t like Mrs. Clinton- she calls her a socialist. She is truly concerned about what Obama and the Dems will do to the economy and her business. And she is surprised that people in this country are not more alarmed by, (what she views as), the socialist policies of the Democrats.
We’ve had some interesting political discussions over the years. (Well, truth-be-told they are mostly one-sided since she usually has her hands in my mouth.) Her perspective leads me to believe that people who lean towards socialism, should talk with people who experienced it first hand.
