The population of America, always growing because of legal and illegal immigration (more than 10 million illegals under Biden), is about to decrease.
Raven-Symone said, "My confession for this election is if any Republican gets nominated, I'm going to move to Canada with my entire family. I already have my ticket.”
Miley Cyrus said, ”My heart is broken into a 100000 pieces…I am moving if [Donald Trump] is my president! I don't say things I don't mean!”
Amy Schumer declared, “My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain or somewhere. It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s just too crazy.”
Cher pledged to leave the planet all together. She tweeted, "IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED, IM MOVING TO JUPITER.”
Lena Dunham made her statement on the matter: "I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will. I know a lovely place in Vancouver.”
Am I wrong in saying that threats to leave the country if Trump is elected spring mostly from the entertainment community, a markedly liberal group centered in Hollywood and New York?
One wonders why those Leftist celebrities who say they will leave the country if Trump is elected didn’t leave during the four years when he actually was President. What kept them here? One wonders also why people on the Right don’t make declarations to leave if a Democrat takes the Oval Office. Could the difference lie in the fundamental nature of the two political parties? Could that difference lie in simple vs complex thinking?
Thinking
I suppose each of us is guilty of Convenient Reductionism (Reductionism of Convenience?) whenever our core beliefs and feelings are threatened. When I see empty threats, such as those made by famous Lefties threatening to leave the country in which they made their inordinate wealth, I ask whether or not those celebrities have reasoned their positions or simply followed the culture of the moment and place driven by the propaganda du jour. Am I also wrong in noting that the “threats” threaten no one?Do the one third billion Americans who stay in the country notice the absence? ”So-n-so left the country, you say? Hmnn, I hadn’t noticed. On my way to pick up the kids now, so I don’t have time to discuss this; see me when my life’s activity level registers zero.”
To borrow from St. Thomas Aquinas, I would argue that such threats to leave America do not derive from a “naturally rational necessity” that, for example, prompted Albert Einstein and other Jews to leave Hitler’s Germany. Then and there a real threat—not merely a perceived threat promulgated through political scare tactics—made living in Germany truly dangerous.
Enter--Or Rather, Exit--Jamie Pomeroy
Jamie Pomeroy and her husband, ex-pats who moved to New Zealand, are once again leaving a country. The couple left the U.S. when New Zealand’s then liberal government supported all the stereotypical Left-wing causes and ideals: Power to lockdown an entire population, quashing individual freedom with mandates, climate change initiatives costing inordinate expenditures on non-quantifiable speculation, extreme gun control because of pathological mass shooters, promotion of rights for vociferous special groups and DEI hires for government agencies, and prohibitions on mining that shut down resources, killing wealth generation in favor of Greenies’ extreme demands.*
But as anyone familiar with the pendulum of politics knows, political parties rise and fall with generational shifts and naturally rational necessities, such as the need to respond to international and domestic crises and the fickle will of a people easily dissatisfied. New Zealand’s pendulum swung just as England’s and France’s swung in recent elections. ** And now Jamie Pomeroy is looking to relocate, maybe to Canada, she says. Good luck with your Trudeautopia, Jamie.
It’s reductionist to think any place has a permanence of political views. The closest any place comes to semi-permanence is in dictatorships and oligarchies like China, Cuba, North Korea, and Russia. The pendulum will eventually swing in those lands, just as it swung at the ends of dynasties in ancient Egypt, in medieval China and Europe, and in modern times in the now defunct Soviet Union. The political pendulum is only briefly still. Pushed alternatively to the Right and Left, the pendulum preserves its momentum, and those in power are eventually powerless to stop the swinging.
It’s simplification driven by propaganda and ideology that drives some to emigrate and others to make empty promises to emigrate if the government swings in a different direction. In the USA, propagandists have convinced some that Trump will destroy democracy and dissolve rights. But was it not the Democrat Party that created and pushed the Russian Collusion hoax in an effort to unseat a duly elected President and thus bypass the election results and foil the democratic process? Why did the Lefties not threaten to leave the country during a hoax that was a direct attack on democracy and individual rights? Answer: Reductionism of Convenience. It was all right to destroy democracy and
Naturally Rational Necessity
The pluralism and complex nature of a free capitalist and constitutional society ensures that the pendulum will swing. If any naturally rational necessity prevails, it should derive from that ineluctable swinging and not from simplistic fear driven by ideology and propaganda.
*https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-boston-globe/20240703/281646785341581
**https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-zealand-once-a-utopia-for-trump-weary-exiles-turns-to-the-right/ar-BB1pgdfy
Raven-Symone said, "My confession for this election is if any Republican gets nominated, I'm going to move to Canada with my entire family. I already have my ticket.”
Miley Cyrus said, ”My heart is broken into a 100000 pieces…I am moving if [Donald Trump] is my president! I don't say things I don't mean!”
Amy Schumer declared, “My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain or somewhere. It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s just too crazy.”
Cher pledged to leave the planet all together. She tweeted, "IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED, IM MOVING TO JUPITER.”
Lena Dunham made her statement on the matter: "I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will. I know a lovely place in Vancouver.”
Am I wrong in saying that threats to leave the country if Trump is elected spring mostly from the entertainment community, a markedly liberal group centered in Hollywood and New York?
One wonders why those Leftist celebrities who say they will leave the country if Trump is elected didn’t leave during the four years when he actually was President. What kept them here? One wonders also why people on the Right don’t make declarations to leave if a Democrat takes the Oval Office. Could the difference lie in the fundamental nature of the two political parties? Could that difference lie in simple vs complex thinking?
Thinking
I suppose each of us is guilty of Convenient Reductionism (Reductionism of Convenience?) whenever our core beliefs and feelings are threatened. When I see empty threats, such as those made by famous Lefties threatening to leave the country in which they made their inordinate wealth, I ask whether or not those celebrities have reasoned their positions or simply followed the culture of the moment and place driven by the propaganda du jour. Am I also wrong in noting that the “threats” threaten no one?Do the one third billion Americans who stay in the country notice the absence? ”So-n-so left the country, you say? Hmnn, I hadn’t noticed. On my way to pick up the kids now, so I don’t have time to discuss this; see me when my life’s activity level registers zero.”
To borrow from St. Thomas Aquinas, I would argue that such threats to leave America do not derive from a “naturally rational necessity” that, for example, prompted Albert Einstein and other Jews to leave Hitler’s Germany. Then and there a real threat—not merely a perceived threat promulgated through political scare tactics—made living in Germany truly dangerous.
Enter--Or Rather, Exit--Jamie Pomeroy
Jamie Pomeroy and her husband, ex-pats who moved to New Zealand, are once again leaving a country. The couple left the U.S. when New Zealand’s then liberal government supported all the stereotypical Left-wing causes and ideals: Power to lockdown an entire population, quashing individual freedom with mandates, climate change initiatives costing inordinate expenditures on non-quantifiable speculation, extreme gun control because of pathological mass shooters, promotion of rights for vociferous special groups and DEI hires for government agencies, and prohibitions on mining that shut down resources, killing wealth generation in favor of Greenies’ extreme demands.*
But as anyone familiar with the pendulum of politics knows, political parties rise and fall with generational shifts and naturally rational necessities, such as the need to respond to international and domestic crises and the fickle will of a people easily dissatisfied. New Zealand’s pendulum swung just as England’s and France’s swung in recent elections. ** And now Jamie Pomeroy is looking to relocate, maybe to Canada, she says. Good luck with your Trudeautopia, Jamie.
It’s reductionist to think any place has a permanence of political views. The closest any place comes to semi-permanence is in dictatorships and oligarchies like China, Cuba, North Korea, and Russia. The pendulum will eventually swing in those lands, just as it swung at the ends of dynasties in ancient Egypt, in medieval China and Europe, and in modern times in the now defunct Soviet Union. The political pendulum is only briefly still. Pushed alternatively to the Right and Left, the pendulum preserves its momentum, and those in power are eventually powerless to stop the swinging.
It’s simplification driven by propaganda and ideology that drives some to emigrate and others to make empty promises to emigrate if the government swings in a different direction. In the USA, propagandists have convinced some that Trump will destroy democracy and dissolve rights. But was it not the Democrat Party that created and pushed the Russian Collusion hoax in an effort to unseat a duly elected President and thus bypass the election results and foil the democratic process? Why did the Lefties not threaten to leave the country during a hoax that was a direct attack on democracy and individual rights? Answer: Reductionism of Convenience. It was all right to destroy democracy and
Naturally Rational Necessity
The pluralism and complex nature of a free capitalist and constitutional society ensures that the pendulum will swing. If any naturally rational necessity prevails, it should derive from that ineluctable swinging and not from simplistic fear driven by ideology and propaganda.
*https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-boston-globe/20240703/281646785341581
**https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-zealand-once-a-utopia-for-trump-weary-exiles-turns-to-the-right/ar-BB1pgdfy
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