Reply #119: BRAVO! That needed to be said, Boo - [View All]

[Seabiscuit]

The stark reality I keep waking up to every day for the last 5 years is that the land I still inhabit is NOT the country I grew up in, learned to identify with, and care about. And NOTHING I've done donating countless hours of my time to political campaigns, donating tens of thousands to candidates, has made any difference at all by now. And NOTHING out there gives me any serious reason to believe it's ever going to get any better again.

The country we knew is gone, folks. Get used to it. Leaving the new one for greener pastures is NOT a betrayal of the old one, because the old one simply is not coming back. It's ancient history.

Things will only continue to get worse.

So my wife and I are also drawing up contingency plans to leave and take our young son with us. I don't want my son growing up in a repressive, imperialistic, fascist theocracy any more than I'd want him growing up in Nazi Germany.

As for any yahoo out there that wants to call me or others like me a coward or a traitor, they'd better be ready to say it to my face while I'm rearranging theirs.