I know the local conditions in the USA well, since the majority of my family lives there and I have been visiting there regularly for more than forty years, so I get my experiences directly from the first hand ! My first visit was in 1980, when the communist dictatorship allowed me to visit my father living in exile by holding my wife and little daughter hostage. Back then, I could still see the real "American Dream" that the Free World could offer to all decent people who wanted freedom and wanted to work. For me, who had five special professions and was one of the leading professionals in my country, a successful life was just within reach, but I was not able to leave my family, no matter how good a life might have been waiting for me. But it was good to know that there is a free world on earth where you are not persecuted for your religion and your political views, but this view has changed in me in the nearly forty years that have passed since then, as I have seen how the former dream has turned into a world that I would definitely not want it for myself or my family. The USA, that is, the dark power that took over the "Land of the Free" took away from us the illusion that kept so many of us alive while we languished in the gray monotony of a communist dictatorship. The picture that I once saw and experienced myself is the picture of the community of hardworking American people. has faded, and now I have such images of the USA as the ruins of once-prosperous factories that were moved abroad for profit, and as the endless image of unfortunate people running to drugs in their final desperation, wandering like zombies in big cities! Is there a future for hard-working young people who want to do things here ?
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective--one that few people have--on how the promise of a much better world for all people that seemed so much within reach just a few decades ago has been taken away.
I do it so that my stories might help people to open their eyes!
Not to mention that if someone (the USA) appoints you as the leading power of the planet, it certainly comes with obligations! He should behave like that, and not like a puffing violent warlord in Somalia!
I know the local conditions in the USA well, since the majority of my family lives there and I have been visiting there regularly for more than forty years, so I get my experiences directly from the first hand ! My first visit was in 1980, when the communist dictatorship allowed me to visit my father living in exile by holding my wife and little daughter hostage. Back then, I could still see the real "American Dream" that the Free World could offer to all decent people who wanted freedom and wanted to work. For me, who had five special professions and was one of the leading professionals in my country, a successful life was just within reach, but I was not able to leave my family, no matter how good a life might have been waiting for me. But it was good to know that there is a free world on earth where you are not persecuted for your religion and your political views, but this view has changed in me in the nearly forty years that have passed since then, as I have seen how the former dream has turned into a world that I would definitely not want it for myself or my family. The USA, that is, the dark power that took over the "Land of the Free" took away from us the illusion that kept so many of us alive while we languished in the gray monotony of a communist dictatorship. The picture that I once saw and experienced myself is the picture of the community of hardworking American people. has faded, and now I have such images of the USA as the ruins of once-prosperous factories that were moved abroad for profit, and as the endless image of unfortunate people running to drugs in their final desperation, wandering like zombies in big cities! Is there a future for hard-working young people who want to do things here ?
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective--one that few people have--on how the promise of a much better world for all people that seemed so much within reach just a few decades ago has been taken away.
Best wishes to you. LM
Thank you L.M.
I do it so that my stories might help people to open their eyes!
Not to mention that if someone (the USA) appoints you as the leading power of the planet, it certainly comes with obligations! He should behave like that, and not like a puffing violent warlord in Somalia!
Noblesse oblige - meaning "nobility obliges".
Regards from Hungary