in fucking ruins

It will somehow just be “the democrats fault” or those pesky brown invaders. And will fire up the base to vote in another shitclown.

Wouldn’t extinction be an up?

Yes. I try to educate them when I see this particular form of American exceptionalism. They think that for the price of a plane ticket they will get a Fantasy Island welcome with Mr Roark and a harem of women waiting to wipe their ass with silk.

I tend to agree. But once you hit rock bottom there’s no where else to go except up

Yes. As someone who’s emigrated and researched it I can say many desirable countries are more difficult to get in to than the US.

American’s attitude that they can just “leave” with a passport and a backpack is just another form of American exceptionalism.

Americans would vote for a big bowl of macaroni and cheese if you put a little salt on it

Canada is no different than most other developed nations in their immigration requirements.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can improve.

I suspect you’re joking. But most developed countries wont accept anyone with a criminal record.

Am I just going to let the place fall to ruin because I didn’t get my way this time?

No. Let it fall to ruin because that’s where it’s headed regardless.

they will need my help next time.

You can’t help them.

I have to hope that more people will want to make things better.

Narrator: they actually want to make it worse, as you can see by the result of this election.

hope for a better tomorrow.

How many more years or elections will you fall back on “hope”? Remember how just yesterday nobody thought the fascist could possibly win?

It’d be selfish for me to leave.

Staying is the easy way out. It allows you to fall back on the tried and failed “things will surely get better” delusion.

When you have young children, you have a choice: you can subject them to a life carrying on your battle fighting against creeping fascism and oligarchy, or you can give them a life elsewhere they can breathe and live and enjoy life.

I left the US because I wished to live deliberately, to experience the essential joy of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.