# Is it time to leave yet?

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**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-leave-yet/823748 "2018-10-30T22:15:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-leave-yet/823748/107 "2018-11-01T00:28:51Z")

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> [@dolphinboy](#):
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> I have lived happily in the US my entire 64 years. I love my country and all it stands for… or I should say stood for, but now it seems the lunatics are running the asylum.
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> For all of you that love Trump, and what he and his cronies are doing to this great nation of ours, I hope you are happy, but the rest of us now face a decision. Stick around and hope we can reverse what is happening, or seek out greener pastures? I have been fortunate to have traveled around the world and seen countries that, while not perfect, at least care about people outside of their borders. I’m not wealthy, but I have the resources necessary to go somewhere else if I want to.
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> I’m still a year away from retiring, so at that point I can decide to leave if I choose to, and if things continue on their current path I see no reason to stick around and see how it all plays out. Maybe things will change and we can back to who we were prior to the 2016 election, but I don’t think that’s likely to occur. I’m not a bigoted, anti-semitic, xenophobe, so how can I sit back and ignore what is happening?
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> It feels cowardly to think about leaving, but why stay someplace that you no longer believe in. Is anybody else having these feelings or is it just me?

we’re hardly alone. Sorry, but the post-WWII generation is fucking things up pretty much across the globe. Trump, Brexit, Orban, Wilders, Petry, Duterte, Putin, Le Pen, are all those pathetic, aging fossils who never got their WWIII to be the next “greatest generation.” Nationalism and populism are rampant everywhere, just witness Brazil electing Bolsonaro.

the world sucks because old people are the only reliable voting block, and old people suck. Old people convince themselves that they were absolute perfect angels when they were young, and that everything was perfect when they were young. so they will vote for any demagogue who agrees that everything was perfect back then and who promises to protect them from everything they’re scared of, including their own shadows.

we are the only species on the planet that expends a ton of effort keeping our aged population alive. and I wonder why.

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