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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're going to feel pretty silly if the next election cycle results in changes in domestic politics and all of a sudden the sky stops falling.  Relocating internationally with shifting political winds seems foolish, at best, not to mention expensive and disruptive.

But, if you wear a tinfoil hat and assume there will be no further elections in the U.S. ever, you'll be patting yourself on the back.

Which scenario seems the more likely?  [/quote]

My grandparents lived through WWII in Europe. My grandfather was an RAF pilot. My father fled a dictatorship in a once prosperous and peaceful nation. "Things fall apart, the system cannot hold". There is nothing magical about the US that will keep us from falling into this. No one is coming to save us. [/quote]

The quote is “things fall apart, the center cannot hold.”  It’s from The Second Coming by Yeats.  [/quote]

I was paraphrasing and actually referencing the novel by Chinua Achebe which is about a breakdown of a political system. Hope this helps!
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Not really.  Achebe used the famous line from Yeats’ poem for his title.  The way you wrote it implied it was the quote, which it most certainly isn’t.   [/quote]

He used the first part of the line as the title. I specifically wrote system because the political system is what we're talking about. Anyway glad you got to be pedantic on the internet today! "And say my glory was I had such friends" [/quote]

Oh just piss off, you wannabe limey. [/quote]

Hahaha Yates, famously Irish? Limey means British. They...don't like each other. You are learning so much today![/quote]

Nope, well aware and recently spent a month in County Sligo which is Yeats country.  The PP said she wanted to immigrate to the UK as her grandparents were from the UK.  She is a wannabe limey.  [/quote]

Also it’s Yeats, not Yates.   Seems like you’re on a roll.  Please do leave for the UK.  Bland food and terrible weather likely suit you.  I always laugh when I see the little UK cars driving around near where I live with huge UK sticker on the back.  You’ll fit right in with that dowdy lot. [/quote]

^ this definitely screams low-class MAGA 
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And you scream "never lived in the UK."  All the celebrities who have decamped to the Cotswolds have re-created the privileged places they left behind as have the few wealthy Brits and Middle Easteners who live in Central London The rest of the countries in the UK do not have the standard of living enjoyed by even the MAGAs in the US.  [/quote]

Ok sure....can you give some examples?[/quote]

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