I was not planing on moving to John Howard's Australia if Kerry won nor did I conemplate moving to John Major's UK when Clinton won, so I do find this idea of moving a little strange.My application to emigrate to Canada was filed in March 2003. I was planning on leaving no matter who won the 2004 election.
I did want John Kerry to win, as thought he would be "less worse" than W, but either way, I was leaving. The US is not for me, and I think Canada will be a better fit.
I realize you just found my blog, and didn't know the background. But a glance at some of the older posts, linked at the right, would have filled you in.
Thank you and have a nice day. Somewhere else.
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It's amazing, the number of short-sighted people in this world ... I myself was 'verballed', so speak, by an organization for simply posting a few of their quotes and noting the hypocrisy between them.
I wish sometimes there was some kind of spray we could use on them to make them all (a) smarter or (b) up and disappear, but in truth, who would be left for us to laugh at if we did?
It's hard to understand why Republicans would be upset if a few lefties pulled up stakes and moved to another country. Hell, if a bunch of NDPers decided to move to Sweden, I'd throw them a going-away party. Americans are incredibly sentimental about their country. They feel if you reject America, you are insulting them personally. I know of no other nationality that feels this way.
L-girl on iPAQ here:
That's exactly it - they take it as a personal insult. They might say "Good, go, who needs you" (etc. etc.) but it's obvious that the idea of an American choosing another country over the US infuriates them. I've written about this a few times, I'll dig up a couple of those old posts.
But Rob, I'm probably a future NDP'er, I hope you're not suggesting... :)
No, no, no, you're always welcome, even with your loopy, lefty politics. But if you did decide that Canada was not place that best suited you, I wouldn't take it as a personal affront.
Yeah, I don't get it either, possibly because I've never been a flag-waver. I'm always amazed at otherwise rational people who have a "love it or leave it" attitude.
Perhaps this is simplistic, but I chalk it up to insecurity. If a person is comfortable with her own choices, who the hell cares if someone feels differently? Same with the whole God thing. Believe or don't believe, whatever.
Crabby
I agree with Crabby.
Attitudes, such as the one that you have encountered, have a little to do with insecurity and a whole lot to do with ethnocentricity. I think much of it stems from ignorance and blind patriotism.
I wonder if I should put my flame-retardant suit on after making that remark? ;o)
Rob: Thank you. :) As I always say, you are far too rational to call yourself a conservative. But you've certainly taught me the difference between the American and Canadian varieties!
Crabby, you are very wise.
Expat: One thing I can say for certain, is that you'll never get flamed on this blog. Flame comments are removed faster than it takes to say George Bush is a drunken liar.
J'aime bien le Canada, meme le parti NDP. Nous embracons tous et toutes. Peut etre particulierement ce parti. Je viens plutot de l'est mais se juis toujours tolerant des opinions des autres.
J
My French is very poor, but I know "mais se juis toujours tolerant des opinions des autres this when I see it. Many thanks.
Hey,
Thanks, L! In the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?" Maybe we could if we lived in a place where Clinton is considered a conservative. I can't stop thinking about that...
Bush est le merde-tete. Allez au enfer, W!
I find it amusing how when it's their idea, the intolerant neo-cons can't get rid of you fast enough. But when it's your idea to leave, it's some sort of insult.
I live in a fairly liberal college town (Fayetteville) in the middle of a very conservative region (northwest corner) of a mostly moderate state (Arkansas), so we get lots of that talk in our regional papers. In fact, one of the first topics I wrote about when I started my 'blog was a Christmas Day letter to the editor inviting liberal dissenters to quickly utilize the interstate to depart the author's secure bastion of high-and-mightiness.
I suppose we should just chalk it up to yet another inconsistency from the right. Someday they'll be forced to resolve the cognative dissonance. It should be interesting to watch them eat each other alive trying to sort it out.
Excellent point, oh great astronomer. Perhaps it's all that cognitive disonance that keeps them so angry.
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