Did I miss the answer to this question in the article?
“How do you know when it’s time to go?”
When Obama is elected the second time!
When Obama is elected the third time, it’s too late.
Nope...I’m stymied too.
I thought this was another Opus.
bfl
The author missed the answer.
As for Argentina or some other hell hole, I’ll take my chances in the US. Why, yes, a cabin in the woods sounds nice today and when it hits the fan.
Answer: NOW!
There are plenty of places in "fly over country" right here in the US.
Ping.
A globetrotting metrosexual with too much television viewing in his “experiences” (e.g., paranoia about US military forces, “as seen on TV”) and excessive affinities for foreign cultures might be part of the problem to begin with. But yes. I can see why he might have getting “out of Dodge” in his future, whether he’ll want to leave or not.
There are some anti-American trends occurring, but they weren’t hatched and executed by our military forces. Look at the business and policy trends spawned by globalism. And the leaving of the gold standard had nowhere near the deleterious effects of the libertine trend toward moral bankruptcy (from 1969 or thereabouts, see trust fund babies of that period).
Thanks for posting this, Blame. I’m going to read that opening quote on my radio show tonite.
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“How do you know when it’s time to go?”
It’s time. Right now.
It’s always time.
Survivalism should be something you live. When SHTF, you shouldn’t have to adjust your routine [much]. When SHTF, there will be a lot of other things for you to worry about beyond a complete change to daily routine, so make your daily routine such that little if anything changes when the time comes.
Eat daily out of a pantry a year deep. Be off the grid, or at most a few minute’s fiddling from being off it in comfort. Live where you’ll need to be when things go pear shaped.
When it’s time to go, be gone already. If you’re not, you’ll have a LOT of unwanted company.
There's a myth that the first group of people a newly-minted dictator cracks down on are outside dissidents. Dictators do in fact go after those people, but not initially. The fist group that gets hauled off into the concentration camp is the dictator's political rivals.
There's the escape window - the time when an ordinary dissident is too small to bother with. When the newly-minted dictator is still concerned with showing how good a guy he is.
Specifically, the time to get out of Dodge is when a Representative or Senator is hauled off to Gitmo. Regardless of how much you dislike said politician.
It's easy in one sense but hard in another. Any dictator with some smarts is going to pick on a widely-disliked elected official. When it's time to pack your bags, you'd be doing so when many of your neighbours are chortling about Sen. or Rep. X being hauled off. With this in mind, it'd be prudent to pack your bags quietly.
You might also have to stifle the feeling that you're a coward. With this in mind: Even Charles de Gaulle had to seek refuge in London UK.