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Freedom in America #263 By Hank Silverberg Freedom in America is under fire. But before you stop reading, know that I am not going to blame immigrants or minorities or socialists. (The Statue of Liberty welcomed millions of our ancestors to America.) I am not going to blame Democrats or Republicans in general. But the climate we have right now is not healthy for our democracy, and for the first time in my 69 years of life, I know what my parents must have thought as Nazism, Fascism and Communism spread around the world in the 1930's and 40's. We are faced with a rise in antisemitism AND Islamophobia. Our schools are under attack for teaching real history, and our Congress is dysfunctional because of small minorities on the far right and far left who won't let the rest of them do anything. Frankly, the people who run for government office these days seem to think ideology, party and extreme views are more important than progress toward a more perfec