Don't move to Sweden.
But -- legitimate question: how are you trying to make it better? I'm not really a bootstraps-picket-fence-American-dream kind-of guy, but I recognize the power of personal choice and responsibility. How are you trying to make things better and being stifled by the structure that exists?
Thank you for your extremely polite response, Jesse.
I am just frustrated.
-I am frustrated with a country where the Indiana "law" is even being discussed
-I am frustrated with the rich getting richer despite a liberal President
-I am frustrated with Calif. installing SPIKES to deter HOMELESS people
-I am frustrated with people saying that atheists are the morally bankrupt people despite what I just said.
I'mfrustrated, bro. That's all. I see better things and I want better things.
Hey man I feel your pain. But moving to Sweden is not suddenly going to make things better. For starters you would probably have to become fluent in the language, which we all know is a real bitch. And secondly I hear that Scandinavian social democratic paradises are actually not very friendly towards foreigners (they largely work because of "I have mine, now bugger off!"). Which I guess is about the best way I know of to say that if you are looking for a bunch of bad apples in any place you are bound to find them.
I mostly second J-Mann's advice. Sure, we would all like a Golden F
uckin' Parachute, but that is not how life happens. You get good times and bad times regardless of where you are at. It is all about how you choose to deal with the sh
it. Your thoughts are not that much different than millions of other people in this country. This country is not perfect and we shouldn't be blind to the faults that exist here, but frankly f
uck your defeatist narrative Hockey. We need people like you and the whole "I'M MOVING TO CANADA!" bullsh
it is not helping any sincere left wing narrative in the States. I admit a lot of that is pure selfishness on my part: I love my friend and family and I don't want to leave them to a totalitarian theofascist republic just because I can't stand it's politics.
Just remember that without slavery there would've been no abolition. Without the Gilded Age there would be no organized labor. Without the Great Depression there would be no New Deal. Without Jim Crow there would be no Civil Rights movements. Would I have preferred that everything went right from the get go? You damn right I do! I don't think there are many on here who share the same view! We all wish America was some super duper happy hippie paradise where everyone had healthcare, greedy corporations weren't paying out starvation wages, and stable employment is becoming a thing of the past! But do not let the situation of the present make you depressed and put you down when the Undiscovered Country of the future is still ahead! It is up to you to ultimately guide your future.
[/a fellow Left American]
