Why will you stay in the US if shrub wins in 2004?

[WoodrowFan]

Why will you stay in the US if shrub wins in 2004?

[Jackhammer Jesus]

1. Because drafts are fun!

Whee, I'm being sent to war in a foreign country against my will! What a goddamn blast!

[theorist]

2. School

Once I get my Ph.D., I'll consider getting a post-doc in Canada. They're nicer (than the average pug) people up there.

[hlthe2b]

3. Well, I imagine ASSSSKROFT will have us all detained....

pending relocation to GITMO. 'Guess I'll be in good company at least...

[theorist]

21. At least our cell mates will have an interesting book to lend us...

[Speck Tater]

4. I'll just move REAL close to the border

so I can escape when they start building concentration camps for liberals.

[indigo32]

5. Family

eom

[GOPFighter]

6. If the majority of Americans legitimately want Bush to be their President-

-I will consider leaving. Mainly because Bush and his corporatist backers will complete their goal of a plutocracy with high unemployment, and low overall wages. The wealthy plutocrats will use emotional issues (like abortion, gay marriage, antoi-government, anti-taxes) to keep the unemployed and underemployed angry and distracted. This country will be a hell on earth. Bush will find more countries to invade and populate the military with the vast numbers of unemployed young people whose only hope of survival is to join the military.

[liberalhistorian]

17. EXACTLY, David!

I refuse to live in a country whose people actually vote for the likes of Shrub and the Smirkinos, and who sit back apathetically and do nothing while he continues destroying the country and trashing everything we're supposed to stand for and all of the institutions that, as Paul Krugman puts it, make life livable and bearable for those without a six-figure-or-above income. I refuse to live in a country without a safety net for its citizens. I refuse to live in a country whose citizens consider any proposal at all, no matter how small, that benefits others through government funds as "socialist." I refuse to live in a country where everything I do and say and read and watch and listen to is scrutinized and spied on, down to what books I check out of the library, and where it's now possible to watch everything in my life 24/7 and where I can be arrested at a moment's notice for associating with the "wrong" (read "liberal") groups or reading the "wrong" (read "liberal") books, etc. I refuse to finish raising my son in a country whose leaders consider him to be nothing more than cannon fodder for their perpetual imperialistic wars once he comes of age. And I refuse to live in a country that considers me to be the enemy and unpatriotic because I'm a liberal, and who will probably begin building "re-education camps" for "libruls" and anyone else disagreeing in the slightest with our Great Leader the Boy King Impostor himself, aka King George II.

Think I'm paranoid? Think again. Think about all the things that are happening now that we never, ever, ever, EVER, in our wildest dreams, thought would be possible in this country just two short years ago. And it's only getting worse and worse. The only thing worse than Shrub rigging the '04 election so that he remains in office is if Shrub is actually elected by the idiot people this time, because then we will know that this country as we knew it and as it was and could have been is really, finally dead. I've already begun laying the groundwork for a possible immigration to Canada, should it be necessary. And I don't mind cold, either, although there are some areas of Canada that aren't really that arctic.

It's beyond heartbreaking to me to see this happening to my country, but I'm beginning to fear that there really isn't much we can do about it and I'm especially frightened by the total lack of knowledge of what is happening on the part of the American sheeple, and total apathy once they do know.

[wryter2000]

7. Other

I love my hometown, Oakland. But if * causes me to lose my job and I have to sell my house, I will consider Canada if they'll have me.

[Turbineguy]

8. But I might convert my assets to Euros

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. you have to speak French to become a Canadian citizen

and if you don't...you have to be of much higher moral fiber than I am.

:D

[liberalhistorian]

18. No, you do NOT have to speak French to

be a Canadian citizen, and they allow dual citizenship. I've taken Canada's Skilled Workers Immigration test and passed. They'd prefer you to have at least a basic proficiency in French, but you don't absolutely have to.

[arcane1]

10. hell yes I will

can't do a damned thing about him from Vancouver

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Option 1, but I'll leave the country for at least a year. . .

to travel the world (by sailing, I hope) and re-charge my batteries for the long struggle ahead.

:kick:

[Wickerman]

12. I'll stay - I'd miss the NBA

But I would be VERY unhappy.

[soothsayer]

13. I suspect a military coup will ensue if * steals the next election

Seriously, I think they'd like to take him out.

[Hand]

14. STAY in the US?...

Hell, I left 13 years ago and moved to Canada. Not for political reasons originally, although I was mighty glad to be out of there before Chimpy Senior started his own little war.

Around 1994 I stopped calling myself an expatriate and changed that to political exile. Nowadays I'm just another hoser who also happens to have a US passport that I never use...

:hi:

[ironflange]

15. Hey, we get the NFL and NBA here, ya know

It isn't all hockey and curling on the tube.

[sujan]

16. yes

I dont see any reason not to.

[Nay]

19. Because I wouldn't leave my (adult) son to face it alone.

[jobycom]

20. Because no one will want us! So we better win. nt.

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[rustydog]

22. Because cowards run from a good fight

i do not want to be like Bush in any way and we all know he runs when he thinks the shit gets deep.

[mvd]

23. I have three generations of fighting in my family, and..

I love what our country stood for before Bush. So I'll probably at least start the new term here. Nova Scotia is my place of retreat.

[BiggJawn]

24. Because the Resistance will need good Radiomen...

So I'll stay.....

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

25. I'd love to move to Canada

Unfortunately, it's not possible. I gotta stay here until I'm outta college. :(

[guitar man]

26. I thought about leaving,

But I own a little piece of dirt and a little shack outright,paid it off this week. I am not going to let them chase me off of it!

[SmileyBoy]

27. I need to finish college.

I really don't think I'll be drafted. My chances are pretty good that I'll be safe. But I AM moving to somewhere in Canada when I graduate. I'm thinking of getting my masters at the U of Manitoba.

[CSI Willows]

28. Well, other...

but some of those also do apply. I guess it's mostly the part that the only relatives I have outside the US live in Israel and Hungary and that area's a but iffy right now. Besides, I barely know them.