So, by escaping, how does that help us bring back the ideas of America?
It's a sidestep, not a permanent escape. It gives freedomistas the freedom to move about. How does it help to bring back the ideas of liberty if we're all trapped in the USSA when it goes hard totalitarian, and nobody can get out?
Wandering freedomistas might be needed to carry the torch, and provide beacons of hope, the way that escaped Russians did during the Soviet era.
And like I said at the end, having a boat that CAN cross an ocean doesn't mean you HAVE to. It just means you have the option. It also means that in the event of regional fracture, you might escape from, say, New York to Florida, when I-95 is under total lockdown.