That was then. Currently, America is adopting more and more of the thoroughly alien political philosophy that holds people cannot be permitted to act on their free volition, or else their base urges and thoughtless egotism will frustrate construction of the perfect world. Actually, the miracle we call America has brought forth a breed of human being noted for its desire to do the right thing because common decency and common sense combine to guide common standards of conduct. As anxiety about meeting basic needs subsided, so each generation rose higher on the ladder of civilization, with genuine and lasting results. Coercion and the threat of punishment produce the opposite, as they deprive people of individual discretion.
Resentment builds, counting the hours, then minutes, until tyranny is brought down at last.
That is the story of Germany, as well as of France, Russia, Spain, Italy. That is why the one-way traffic to America has continued for a very long time. But now, the pestilence that turns the law from the greatest blessing into a hated tyrant has infested our land. Human interaction across a broad spectrum came to be forbidden in recent years, or regulated to the point where it amounts to a prohibition for all practical intents and purposes. It is forbidden to call persons and things what they are.