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Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Why do people say/write that they would move out of the country if someone they don't like is elected or even nominated? It's seems like a hallow threat especially when people never back it up. I would never consider leaving the United States just because I don't like an elected official.
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I agree that if it's a hollow threat, which most of them are, it's ridiculous. Moving to Canada is not going to miraculously solve all your problems, and it's going to make it even harder for all the people still living in this country who need your support.
However, some elections force people to come to terms with certain facts about this country which can be really hard for them to face, and I think that's what's going on here. I can come to terms with the Bush re-election because I think that some people have reasons for it that are valid -- they aren't my reasons, but that doesn't make them not valid reasons. However, I have had a lot of trouble over the past couple days trying to deal with the fact that I live in a country where people want to write discrimination against homosexuals into our Constitution. This is not what I was brought up to believe that the US was about, and I have lost a lot of faith in this country because of it.
This could just be a temporary period of disillusionment -- or it could be more permanent. And if the second is the case, I will probably end up moving out of this country. The way this country voted made me realize that I am simply at odds with one of the fundamental facts about our country (its relationship with religion) and I don't want to spend the rest of my life fighting that.
So while I'm not planning to leave the country because of a specific politician that was elected, I can understand how other people might if they felt that the election of a certain politician taught them things about this country that they had not previously understood and didn't feel they could live with.
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