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I’m not leaving…the country that is. I’m not leaving the country no matter who wins the next election. If I could find a politically stable tropical island where you can actually drink the water and I had the means to buy mangoes and drinks with paper umbrellas in them, sure I would probably wash my hands of the whole lot of you and be done with it.
The odds of that happening however, are quite slim, so I shall be remaining in America and standing my ground. Where exactly that ground is, I am uncertain. Somebody has gone and drug the middle out into the outfield, we seem to be running our bases backwards, and the whole ball park has tilted. Just the same, I’m rather fond of baseball, apple pie,and Chevrolet, so this is where I’ll be, standing my ground in the middle of a tilted ballpark and munching away on apple pie.
Like most election years, there has been a rash of people threatening to leave the country if so and so is elected. Not to be impolite here, but if you haven’t yet figured out how to leave your parent’s basement, you should not be saying such things. You are likely to fill your parent’s with false hope and that is somewhat cruel.
If you are an elitist like Justice Ruth who has just said that very thing, you have no business verbalizing such threats either. Most of us did not get to earn a triple digit salary while assisting the country on it’s path to the edge of a cliff. When one has been working in government service for years, one is simply not allowed to look about at all the destruction one has wrought and declare, “well my job is finished here, I’ll be on my way now.” Oh no, such things offend me! If you have helped to make this bed, than you should be forced to sleep in it with the rest of us.
Or perhaps, don’t let the door hit you on the bum on the way out, but regardless threats to run away from home are infantile and childish. I myself frequently dream of smuggling myself off in shipping container heading for foreign lands, but knowing my propensity for trouble, I am just likely to wind up in a far worse place.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Okay… I’ll give up my dream of running off to paradise with my husband if Hillary is elected. Anyway, I’m happy to stand with you. 🙂
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Ha! Well if your husband is actually willing to run away to a paradise with you, that’s an offer one might want to take him up on.
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I love that meme! I would imagine that Alger Hiss would be a superstar in today’s democratic party. 😀
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If all it takes to get the riff-raff out of the country is to elect ‘The Donald’, then we should have thought of it sooner.
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As to the rich and famous threatening to leave, they are like the eggs in breakfast, whereas I’m like the bacon – the chicken is involved and the pig is committed.
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Ha! Good point about the different levels of commitment . Or perhaps we should all be committed for trying to compare politics to breakfast. 🙂
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Ahh, Ms. IB, your first paragraph had me smiling (in a good way) because I have just the island for you!
Yes, Mam. I really do. I could go on and on… while including a few cons but since you’ve decided to stay put; I’ll extend an invitation to you… check it out!
Mangoes galore, not much stress in owning and operating your own business, relatively cheap healthcare… and oh yes, potable water 🙂
Let me know if your interest is even piqued.
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Oh, how tempting! My interest is always piqued. If nothing else, I need to experience this place virtually.
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I assure you, it actually exists…and I forgot to affirm your first criterion – it is politically stable.
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We’re going to have to talk ancients, if for no other reason than I love to hear about what’s up in the world and what it might be like to live in other places. 🙂
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cool…no problem!
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If we vote. One vision in the crystal ball is increasing violence this summer, degrading the police, excuse for martial law, and “suspended elections.”
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I first heard citizens threaten to leave the country in 1980 when Reagan was running. He won, and not many bitter liberals left. On occasion when someone makes that threat in my presence, I ask, “Where would you go?” Nine times out of ten that ends the threat. J.
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Nice meme 🙂
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We read in the New Testament that Christ left areas where the people would not receive His message. The Apostles turned their backs on Israel and evangelized the Greeks. There were prophets too who went abroad when they were not heard in Israel.
When God has abandoned a society—as I believe He has ours—then we don’t do His Will by ‘standing our ground’.
I look at other countries and I see good men doing good things; raising families, working productively, and defending their homes. Here if you’re a male—especially a Christian male—you’re treated like absolute garbage while punks, perverts, and thugs get to lord it over you while you can do nothing about it. This is God’s Will for a man? No thanks—I don’t believe it.
This country is no place for men, families, workers, protectors, OR Christians. It used to be: but those days are over. They won’t come back. Standing your ground is simply going down with the ship. It’s a pointless sacrifice that doesn’t serve God; doesn’t help one personally, and doesn’t do anyone else any good.
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Yes, sometimes the disciples were told to shake the dust from their feet. I do know people who were clearly lead by God to leave certain places too, even to go to other countries. God plants us where He wants us and when people are tuned into prayer and hearing His voice, they’ll know what they are supposed to do.
I’m sorry it’s so hard for many men in the US right now. There are some however, who really do believe in standing their ground and that perhaps they were made for such a time as this. Sometimes people can shine all the brighter when it’s dark out.
Personally I think the pioneers were crazy, traversing unfamiliar land, sure to face hostile Indians, likely to die of dysentery before they got there, but tally ho! Some people thrive on a good challenge, others are called to go where they can feel more productive.
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I suppose too, that those Christians who came to America when we had religious freedom could have stayed in Europe. Those who survived 2-3 centuries of persecution, pogroms, religious civil wars, the Jacobins, Communists, and Nazis did eventually gain religious liberty. But those who left, and their descendants, made into the US the great country that it once was.
What I see as problematic with ‘standing one’s ground’ today, is that the US culture is so radically different than what it was even a generation ago, that we may as well be living in a foreign country anyway. At least, by leaving, we can choose one more hospitable to our way of life.
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Maybe it’s because I’m old school but I thought Justice Ginsburg’s comment was rather unprofessional…
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LOL! Quite true…
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