Where does one go when one doesn't want to be an American anymore?

Vanity | 6.26.13 | golux

[golux]

Attack me if you will.

Yes, yes - check my profile - I am indeed presently living abroad for work but I have always been a flag-waving American.

At the moment some members of this august forum - which I have adored for many years, long before I was "golux" - believe Sarah can beat Hillary... Believe America will come to its senses on homosexual everything... Believe there will be some "push back," believe that for the first time in history (well, sine Appomatox) the Federal government will stop expending exponentially... Believe that Career Congresscritters will once again deign to "represent" their constituents... Believe that our Moslem president and his minions at the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming can somehow use their out-of-control, unaccountable spy agencies to audit conservatives into regaining, for America, some miniscule thread of respect in this world... Believe that if we try - if we really try - hard enough to teach our kids how to F each other up the A in grade school and on Sesame Street, then Americans might have jobs and hope again.

But I'm just not seeing it. I really do believe that our country is sick. Mortally sick.

Yep, I've read Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You should too. It'll take you many months, but it's worth doing. The similarities are uncanny. Shockingly so.

I guess I still love America and that for which she "stood." I have sacrificed much for my patriotism as so many of us have - and I have been blessed by our wonderful society. I love America. I LOVE America.

But the Founders' message is real. Ayn Rand's message is real. The LORD and His Commandments are real. I am not a Christian, but if America were a Church (in my case a synagogue,) I'd leave it.

If the RNC were a Church I would leave it.

I have a family. I am afraid for my children's brains, their sexuality, their knowledge of good and evil, their morality. I have lived in many places and can assure you ours is no longer the land of the free.

I am tired of arguing with European (Jews, mainly) about how America isn't crime-ridden, filled with bums and fags and pedophiles and drug addicts and perverted teachers and communists and obese, immoral, undereducated welfare zombies.

America is. We are. After 9/11 we elected a freakin' guy named (probably) Barack Hussein Obama, about whom we know less than nothing. We did this. Is Satan in charge of America?

Tonight I told the Aesop fable about the dog and the wolf to my kids. I love to draw these stories out with details, sounds, et cetera.

For the first time I realized I was being a hypocrite comparing Americans to the wild, free wolf rather than the enslaved, fat, stupid dog, and it choked me up.

My hope is dead. Even a revolution seems impossible. We have traded all of our liberties for safety, and delight in the process, sucking on Soma and flocking to Wal Mart for more American flag decals stamped by Chinese preteens.

But what to do? Where to go?

I love Free Republic. Would there were one.

[nascarnation]

Very good post, thank you for the profound insight!

[matginzac]

But they have lizards in the trees that love to land on unsuspecting passers by. Eeeeeeek!

[csb]

I received this from a friend a few minutes ago - it seems pretty relevant to this discussion Cheers!
Putin’s Speech on Feb. 04, 2013

Fat chance, but this is one time our elected leaders should pay attention to the advice of Vladimir Putin....how scary is that?

On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:

“In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honourable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for five minutes.

[dfwgator]

That’s a leader.

[Hot Tabasco]

Try Iceland, I hear it’s pretty nice this time of the year......

[Donnafrflorida]

wow. you stated feelings i have had so deep down that i stay in denial just to keep my sanity.
i kept thinking.something would be the tipping point where america would finally wake up.
every day every hour i read something new.. so horrific. its a steady stream.
weiner is ahead in NY. Hillary sky high favorability. one posts pictures of his penis. the other stands by while 4 men are murdered.

the dems denounce God three times AND THEY are still seen in a favorable light. they gleefully murder babies but fight to save THEPLANET. God please show us what to do!!!!
i am so sad and so fearful for my kids and grand children. i wont surrender but i have lost hope. our nation has never been so evil.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

A few Freepers have retired to the Philippines and I plan to do the same in a few years.

Inexpensive. Beautiful beaches and scenery. Beautiful women that do not discriminate against older men. Older people are respected. The people are warm and friendly. English is widely spoken. Etc...

Yes, there is corruption and heartbreaking poverty in many provinces, and Manila Metro is expensive, polluted and a s***hole, but there are 7,107 Islands in the Phils, and the Island of Cebu is one of the best in the world.

Do your research. There are many great places to live in the Phils.

I’m not leaving America. America has left me.

[Donnafrflorida]

i was called to prep 20 months ago. came out of nowhere. driving force has not lamented but rather the urgency escalates every month. the burden of that respibsibility is very heavy. i am tired but i keep on keeping on.
ps. your words were encouraging. sometimes i wonder why i am doing this. thank you.

[Nowhere Man]

I’d say we are almost equal to Russia now. I’m originally from the USSR and this is terrifying.

I remember when I was a junior in high school in 1983 when the Soviets shot down Korean KAL-007. I remember one discussion we had, I asked for "shats and giggles," "what if the USA became the USSR and the USSR became the US? What if we (the US) ever became the Evil Empire?" Looks like I might see the answer to my question.

I remember back then, 1982/85, my German teacher told us that "if we are not careful, we could lose our freedoms." He told us the story of how the Communist countries are and even showed us slides of his 1979 trip he took the class over to Germany. One excursion was into East Germany and he told me that the people were so aloof and unsettles over there like they were in constant fear.

I last talked to him in the early 1990's and he was optimistic then with the fall of Communism but I think he would not be a happy camper now with both his and my concerns seem to be coming to pass right now. I know what he would say but I wish I could still talk to him now, he passed away from cancer in 1993.

I find it ironic that you fled communism but now we are becoming more that way. B-( I like the saying from the old comic, Pogo Possum, "We have met the enemy, he is us." (1971)

[dfwgator]

Those churches are spectacular.

[dfwgator]

The Cold War at least gave this nation a sense of purpose....now we are just adrift, standing for nothing, except for policies which will be the downfall of Western Civilization, either from the faggots, or from the Muslims.

[varmintman]

Pictures are just of the one "church", that colloal Cathedral of Christ the Savior (храм христа спасителя) in Moscow. There are other churches and cathedrals in Russia....

[varmintman]

Question: What did Genghis Khan (Чингисхан), Tamerlane, Hitler, Stalin, and Attila the Hun have in common?

Answer: None of those guys ever shut down a major agricultural region for the sake of a fish or a lizard...

[familyop]

Mongolia! Yurts are cool, and it would be a great place to be a cowboy and get in shape!

[sauropod]

I tried the Pimsleur German.

Not so great.

[dfwgator]

I tried the Pimsleur German. Not so great.

I know a little German.....he's sitting over there.

[varyouga]

We are so far gone that I can’t imagine a single US “leader” saying even one of those lines in defense of the USA

[sauropod]

Wonderbar!

Eine hefeweizen auf mi rechnung, bitte!

[Mears]

bfl

[1rudeboy]

I’d say we are almost equal to Russia now.

LOL--If you like Russia, why not Mexico? It's closer. And practically light-years ahead of it.