How more Americans aren’t calling it quits and emigrating literally anywhere I’ll never know. Your country is being taken from you in plain sight with barely a whimper.
It takes time to plan leaving the country. A lot of people like me are leaving we just haven’t gotten there yet because of how long it takes getting everything lined up
Of my entire friend and family group I’m the only one who can afford to leave. Moving is not cheap and I think it’s like 1/3 of Americans are paycheck to paycheck
It’s also more than just financially difficult to move countries. Most places require you to have a valued skill set. Many places deny neurodivergent people. This means a lot of the people who need to leave the most can’t land somewhere even if they could afford to flip their life upside down
A.) I’m broke B.) I don’t have a college degree - See A. C.) The job market sucks literally everywhere - See A. D.) I’m on the Autism spectrum - See A. E.) My wife cannot have children F.) My wife doesn’t have a degree - See A.
Get the picture? I’m not even appealing to my own country, why would anyone else want me?
How would it help to leave? Lots of cowards have already done so. Have you ever considered that maybe it’s because so many progressives are leaving that now we don’t have the numbers you want to see when we protest? That the people who would have been protesting are already gone?
I’m fully willing to die fighting fascism in this stupid civil war, but it isn’t a war until we get some governors and coast guard on board. Until that point, anyone who does anything violent is just a ‘lone terrorist’ and will probably be disappeared to El Salvador.
Leaving is not speaking out. Leaving is not fighting. It is only for your own survival, and it leaves the rest of us with less to fight with and less to fight for.
