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Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S
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Or the vast majority of that sub-group wishes to stay and change it...
Was going to say exactly this. Disapproving massively of the current political climate in the United States and worrying about what it says about our future is not going to make me want to run away. This is my home, I want to make it better. We just took a little misstep, that's all.
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#13% of people who will actually leave the US?
I'd wager near 0.
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#14A truly incredible statistic:
“40% of women younger than 30 would like to leave the U.S.”
That says a lot about the extent to which Trump has alienated young women.
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#15I see that people are assuming that the ones who want to leave do so because they feel the government is insufficiently liberal. The truth is, I have met some people who wish they could leave to go somewhere more conservative. I think that everyone would want to leave the US if somewhere out there was a utopia that exactly implemented their political and social views. The main thing that tamps down that desire is the fact that such places rarely exist.
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#16Ultimately this indicates that people aren’t satisfied with the returns on taxation. I’m all for supporting a government that supports the people. From my perspective we don’t have this and haven’t had it for some time. Other developed nations have better infrastructure, better social support system, near free higher education, free at point of contact healthcare systems. What we get in the U.S. is the most advanced warfare system ever.
EDIT: I’m not complaining about the level of military spending or healthcare spending. I’m pointing out that from my perspective our return on taxation is a great military and a crappy healthcare system. Hence I’m not happy about the returns on taxation.
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#18There is no way people answer truthfully on these surveys, since the numbers don't come anywhere close to actual emigration; it seems more of a vote of dissent against the government.
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#19A truly incredible statistic: “ 40% of women younger than 30 would like to leave the U.S. ” That says a lot about the extent to which Trump has alienated young women.
That number seems extremely suspect. If that were really true, it would bubble about culturally in all kinds of ways.
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"I would rather be somewhere else" != "american society is in decay"
There are a lot of variables that go into that kind of decision making. Regardless, in some of these segments, the values double from previous administrations, which is wild.