re: #409 lostlakehiker

The problem is that America is so powerful. If, and I judge it an impossibly remote if, but if the U.S. were to go fascist, Ireland or Canada would be nice until they got treated to the fate that Belgium and Poland suffered the last time a fascist great power arose.

That’s why, for Americans, there’s no place to run. Right now, there’s no reason to be thinking fight or flight. There’s no fascist movement with any prospects. But if one did arise, flight would be immoral and futile.

Oh, piffle.

If fascists ever did take power in this country, there are plenty of people in plenty of other countries who would take in threatened Americans just to piss on the fascists’ shoes.

re: #408 Gus 802

In a practical sense it could only work out if someone had friends or family there. Otherwise, it would be like a fish out of water. All they would do would replace one set of political grievances for another — many of which may in fact be worse.

I’m sure the first sight of a soccer riot and/or soccer hooligans would be rather unsettling. Especially when they’re mixed in with far-right skin heads as we sometimes see in the UK.

As someone who moved to Europe in his early twenties and stayed for a decade, I beg to differ.

America is a great place. So are a lot of other places. The notion that every human being on earth would come here if they could is pure drivel.

I would move to the Cape Verde Islands or the Azores in a heartbeat. Ditto Portugal, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Greece, Italy, or the Czech Republic. For starters.

Not because I hate America, but because I’m bored with it.