Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
How? Honestly, this country is so rigged from every direction I struggle to see a path to a more perfect union. I’m not fond of violence, but we clearly can’t sit about and do nothing, so what tactics will be effective? Protests are somewhere between useless and martyrdom suicide. Voting in general elections is countered by gerrymandering. Voting in primaries is countered by mass propaganda and underfunded education. I can’t even get my local reps to tax political donations and political advertising.
I can list dozens of policies that’d improve the county, state, and country but I don’t know how to get them implemented when half my countrymen favor authoritarianism of one flavor or another.
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