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Look. I get you. But, it it were up to me, I'd have been gone during the Bush II years and I'm still stuck here.
This place has fucked me up enough already. Despite doing "everything right" in my studies, my first career, in scientific research, died before it began, thanks to the ultra-wealthy causing a global recession. Every day I wonder if it's going to be the day that I hear that my trans sibling has been taken or died a death of despair. I lost a cousin to cancer because she couldn't get treatment due to the nazi's handling of COVID. I'm in therapy because of serious childhood trauma. I'm childless, despite wanting to have children my whole life (have never been in a position to afford them and my spouse is disabled, so, I'll likely never have the energy to parent anyway). I know that, no matter how much I put into a 401k, it's never going to be enough for me to retire. The current head of the CDC has suggested putting people like me in forced labor camps.
I spent decades being politically active and trying to get others active, voting, and engaging with reps only to have tankies and centrists actively sabotage any attempt to realistically pull the country Left without the massive amount of death and suffering (especially experienced by vulnerable people) that tankies circlejerk about trying to cause.
Nothing that I do here has any ability to change things in the country for the better within my lifetime, which is likely to be cut short due to living in this country during the ongoing fascist coup that everyone around me is still in denial about. Sure, I help out neighbors and the like as they need it and I'm able. If we meet and you need help, I'll absolutely help you if I can.
I'm not going to Luigi someone or join the Maquis - I am needed too much by my family. Nor am I going to opt-out - I'm too filled with spite over what was stolen to make things any easier for them. And I'm sorry but, if I can get my family out, I will.