Moldovans

I was talking with a couple of Moldovan women tonight, here on what amounts to work/study in the United States. They are both going to be sad when they leave. I think those of us who are free and prosperous forget how unfree and poor much of the world is. I asked about Mafia, and they said the government is the mafia. They are corrupt. We forget in America that the world over many opportunities only go to people who belong to certain groups.

This was the same thing an African cab driver told me. I want to say he was from Eritrea, but I can’t recall for certain. What I do recall is that most jobs were only available to a certain group. Those who were not members of that group were subjected to racism much worse than that visited on Southern blacks during the worst of Jim Crow. For his part, he loved how in America anyone willing to work hard could get ahead.

That is absolutely, categorically not true to this very day in much of the world. It is sickening to me, in those rare occasions when I allow myself to think about it, how awful insults are which the Left levels against what is in nearly all respects the most humane, decent nation ever to bless the planet. It is our very compassion and humanity which they wield as weapons against us. This is evil.