"Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Condemned to Repeat It." Fascist Party Takes Control in Italy 100 Years After Il Duce Took Power.

@robingoodfellow Very well said, and I see little hope of things getting better anywhere until, perhaps, the human race is literally decimated and returned to communal subsistence living, as a consequence of its many follies.

@TinyViolins but some are truly being persecuted, the others have made that claim up!

@samueltyler2 That line of reasoning is exactly why people are shifting further towards the extreme. As long as there's someone else to blame, you never need to accept responsibility or take a critical look at yourself

@TinyViolins
Ewwww, you used the word critical! You're going to be banned! 😯

@Roundandroundwego @Motherwifenurseandnanny Conquered was a poor choice of words. They have been colonized by a multitude of foreign cultures and assimilated their colonizers, let us say. Traveling the island from its strong Greek heritage in the east & south, to its African in the south & west, to its Roman in the north is like a world tour; you never know when a vestige of Viking or Celt will pop up as well. And the people are the same. My late wife was Sicilian; her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. Her father from outside Palermo with heavy Moorish/Roman heritage; her mother from Catania with heavy Greek heritage.

@dancingtongue my City, Catania, always resembled a layer cake to me, with different styles kind of layered onto each other as empires grew and receeded. To me, it's visual proof that Sicily endured in the long run.

@Roundandroundwego Very true. Good way of putting it.

@jackjjackson Rectangular