Reply #7: On one issue, I'd counsel chilling: The DUer leaving the States . . . [View All]

[MrModerate]

I've spent more than half of the last 30 years outside the US, and it hasn't dimmed my ardor for dem/progressive causes nor significantly impeded my supporting those causese -- both emotionally and financially.

True, I've primarily chosen the expatriate lifestyle for employment reasons, but also because I've wanted to immerse myself in other cultures and measure them against the US. It's also afforded me the opportunity to undo some of the damage done by GW Bush & Co. to America's credibility by being a non-crazy American abroad (and proving to some of the rest of the world that we're not all like the wingnuts they see on TV).

At the same time I've also stayed overseas because I haven't wanted to be in the US during 'Lican administrations and haven't wanted to wallow in the swamp of American rightwing media. Doesn't make me less of an American or -- on the whole -- less effective a voice for the things I believe in that affect America.

The other items you mentioned are quite alarming, true. But no more alarming than the things I've heard from/about the wingnutariat my entire life.