General Discussion

Two illustrative examples, of my point, using the United States colony (or territory) of Puerto Rico:

GOP policy is dehumanization, a NAZI approach.



Please contrast with times before a hurricane knocked out power for a year, and before FEMA and the Wall Street penured the Commonwealth.

DEM policy in JFK’s administration was equality, a democratic approach.



A meaningful performance. The Spanish cellist Pablo Casals headlined the 1961 state dinner that the Kennedys held for Luis Muñoz Marín, the governor of Puerto Rico. Casals lived in Puerto Rico at the time because he opposed the dictatorship in Spain. One of the songs he performed, “Song of the Birds,” is a Catalan Christmas carol that, according to the Kennedy Presidential Library, symbolized Spain as well as Casals’ feelings for hope and freedom.

Source: https://stories.state.gov/dinner-is-served/dance/pablo-casals/

Ideas, like culture and Constitution, need all manner of support. The nations which actively and consistently support its arts and artists, like Canada and Denmark, are not only more successful economically, they are happier places than those which don’t, like NAZI Germany and North Korea. Just sayin’.