Reply #202: Well, you'll notice I haven't moved.

[No Exit]

(Oh, okay, you probably WOULDN'T notice, b/c I could be posting from a foreign country! Okay: I'm still in the U.S.!)

What you said is true, if one is discontented with the whole general picture of a party's politics. For example, I am discontented (make that: angry) at the repukes' dominance of the government, what with their fraudulent war, their oil company coddling, their secret investigations and assassinations (some figurative, some literal) of anyone who dares to speak against them, and on and on and on.

But what if one narrows it down to one issue? My first issue--the one that made me first realize how harmful this bunch was to me--was the fact that they are planning to use OUR children's lives to maintain their endless war(s). They are lying to young people to get them to enlist; they will need more and more warm bodies to keep up their endless war. It doesn't help when persons with views as disparate as those of Chuck Hagel and Charlie Rangel are BOTH demanding a draft. So if I only concentrate on the one issue--"do I want my kids to be killed for the neocons' failed, endless, war?"--then moving to another country becomes a viable plan. I'm assuming that not all countries will be forcing young people to go fight in George W. Bush's wars.

But I still haven't left. I still have hope that they won't start a draft. We shall see.