A little over a decade after East German writer Bertolt Brecht suggested his government dissolve the people and elect another, US politicians followed his advice, contributing to the ethnic cleansing of my old Brooklyn neighborhood.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, raised in the same “workers’ paradise” that Brecht once championed, seems to be following along similar lines. She enthusiastically invited what is expected to be millions of refugees from the Islamic world to populate her country. But Merkel and her union of leading “Christian” denominated parties still retain majority support. Quite unlike the 1960s Democrats in my Ridgewood-Bushwick blue collar neighborhood!
Before the “white flight” that had demographically changed that area from about 95% European descendents to about 5%, the once dominant Brooklyn Democrats were steadily losing ground to the newly-established Conservative Party.
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