Short answer: Yes.
Slightly longer answer: Yes, afraid so.
For a more complete answer, read this piece by Umberto Eco and ask yourself how many boxes the current (not to mention past; this is not entirely new) events in the US are checking.
The problem is that too many people want this, aspiring to be either participants or spectators. That they will be victims as well may not have occurred to them, although as long as Those People get it worse it may be worth it for them.
It has been only three weeks but we are well along in the Finding Out phase.
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Seeing what was coming, late last summer I started exploring the possibility of emigrating to Portugal and living the expat life there. I have friends who live there and speak very highly of the quality of life. Ultimately, though, I couldn't do it. I told them that I don't begrudge them the expat life, because they were moving TO something. I'd be running FROM something.
It did make me wonder how Germans who escaped in the early/mid-30's felt as they looked back at everything that happened after they left. Did they feel relief? Sadness? Gratitude? Guilt? Ultimately I'd have trouble looking at myself in the mirror and knowing that I'd cashed in one more bit of privilege to leave behind others more vulnerable. So I decided to sign up with the resistance instead. Hey, maybe I can shield some folks with my middle class cishet white guy privilege before they cart me off to Guantanamo or El Salvador.
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