• djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    7 months ago

    Fleeing to where? If Americans are worried about the rise of fascism at home, I have bad news about the rest of the world. There are no greener pastures. The countries with better quality of life than the U.S. have very strict immigration laws. The U.S. is already the country you go to when yours sucks, no other democratic country has immigration policy as liberal. Trying to flee is circling the drain.

    Maybe instead of trying to run away from problems, vote in the upcoming election and just prevent Trump’s dictatorship!

    • BZ 🇨🇦@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      100%. The Conservative party is currently leading polls here in Canada because of the unpopularity of Justin Trudeau.

      The Conservative party are also conspiracy-loving, reality-denying loonies like the Republicans, but since “we’re Canada”, and “it can’t happen here”, they’ll probably form the government next year.

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        The one upside of trump beating a deeply unpopular Biden would be it might give JT the impetus to acknowledge reality and move on.

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      7 months ago

      I hear you and we are voting. That said, backup plans are a thing for good reasons.

      My wife is Jewish and something she once said to me lives rent free in my brain. “The gross majority of the Jews you know are descended from people who left when they had a feeling. The ones who waited until it was obviously bad did not make it out.”

      Fascism is on the rise globally, but not every country will be led by someone who has actively courted neo-Nazis as part of their base. I saw how emboldened those people felt during his first term, and we anticipate it could only get much worse during a second. We do not want to leave, but we fear that staying may become unsafe for our family.