Small-f fascism was busting out all over Europe. Even Ireland had its Blueshirts, though some still argue over how fascist that group was. As someone wittier than I pointed out, fascism is forever descending upon the United States. But somehow it always lands on Europe.

Joseph R. Biden Sr. sold cars and real estate from 1953 until his retirement.

The Biden family in 1955 lived in a three bedroom house with 2,133 sq feet of interior space located on Wilson Road in Wilmington. The house was constructed in 1954. It’s about a 30 minute drive from there to the University of Delaware campus and there are as we speak transit routes. In the current route system, you take route 2 from a location near Wilson Road to downtown, then take a transfer to a route 10 bus which takes you to the University of Delaware campus. Note, Biden majored in academic subjects rather than seeking a business degree or a teaching certificate. Note also that only about 25% of the 1942 cohort cadged a baccalaureate degree.

Joe was born in 1942 so he would have been applying to colleges around 1960. He wants us to believe that his family was not affluent and that they had to struggle to send him to college in 1960, but apparently they were not so poor that Joe didn’t have his own car. He tries to look poor by talking about using towels as seat covers, but the simple truth is that in the late 1950s and early 1960s very few American kids had their own cars at 18.

At 18 Joe was driving his own ’51 Plymouth. Around the same time, my father, who would have been about 40 years old then, married with three kids, was driving a used ’56 Oldsmobile he bought from my mom’s dad.

I agree that the problem is more with the colleges, but it is exacerbated by – not immigrants as such – but immigrants who, unlike in the past, (1) are not forced by the system to assimilate, and (2) are given benefits that mean that more people come here expecting a handout.

I don’t think that is correct.

It’s not aliens, illegal or legal, that have brought us to this point, but middle and upper class white marxists.

I live in a town that is 30% hispanic. Many of these people came in the 60’s to work the fields each year. Some stayed, as permanent farm hands, some became small businessmen and were absorbed into the culture. Some of those that began businesses became quite successful.
We have more Mexican restaurants than all other restaurants put together (who doesn’t like Mexican food).

I think the same scenario has been repeated around the country. The few racial tensions our community had were in the 80’s when the government and La Raza began agitating college students with their specialness. That too passed.

If I’ve misunderstood what you were saying, please correct.

FDR took office in 1933, more than a decade after Mussolini buffalo’d the King of Italy into giving him the prime minister’s job. In the 1920s, he was employed by a financial sector firm. The closest FDR came to resembling Mussolini was his exercise in cartel formation during the period running from 1933 to 1935. You can offer Executive Order 9066 as an example. Trouble is you’d have to scrounge to find a prominent official in vociferous opposition to it.