Rachel Bartlett (@RachelBartlett)

If you go by the history of insurrections of racially and ethnically homogenous populations in communist Eastern Europe, freedom gets one try every 15-20 years. The young who grew up before communism and who remembered freedom tried to overthrow communism within 5-10 years. After that insurrection, a tiny percentage of each generation tried -- because their parents and grandparents taught them the history of their people. If you have no idea what freedom is, those stories are the only reason anyone would try to break out of their brainwashing. I could at least dream of America, as little as I understood of freedom. With America gone, what will inspire the young? After the crushed uprising of 1953, the German dissidents hadn't recovered enough to dare support the Prague Spring of 1968. The following 20 years, few dared to poke their head out. I remember watching the horrible reports about Tienanmen Square on (illegal) West German TV in early 1989, and while my parents just wanted to live, and not get arrested, I was too young and stupid to be scared. I only knew lies and rumors about our history -- and American movies. That was racially homogenous populations while a free West existed. If America falls, it'll be global gulag for all, forever. FunFact: Today's young Chinese know absolutely nothing about Tienanmen Square. Photos show Soviet tanks in East Berlin, June 17th, 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953