I have an announcement to make.
Despite President Biden's insistence that he's staying in the presidential campaign to defeat Donald Trump, and despite the backing he has from rank-and-file Democrats and the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, establishment Democrats, including my own congresswoman, continue pressure on him to withdraw from the campaign. His subsequent demonstrations of political viability in a press conference and on the campaign trail apparently, have satisfied no one among the Democratic elites and the mainstream media. This only weakens efforts to stop Donald Trump from retaking power and to stop the Heritage Foundation's National Socialist-resonant Project 2025 from becoming the law of the land. It looks like Trump will make history not only by becoming the first Republican President to serve two nonconsecutive terms and becoming the first convicted felon to hold the office, but by becoming the U.S.'s first dictator with absolute rule over the people.
As I have bashed Trump regularly on this blog, and as Trump promises retribution against his opponents, I literally fear for my life. I have long believed and continue to believe that Trump will make dissent and vocalized opposition to his administration a capital offense. I also believe that Trump acolyte Kash Patel, who is likely to hold an intelligence post in the next Trump term if not the post of CIA director itself, will likely collect and organize data of "enemies of the state" among the general populace with a thorough examination of the servers of blogging platforms - so any anti-Trump blogs will be found even if their founders delete them before January 20, 2025. I also expect the method of capital punishment of anti-Trump citizens to be brutal, most likely hanging, though Trump has also suggested the use of guillotines. And even if the Trump regime does not punish citizen dissenters who voice their objections with the death penalty for sedition, why would I want to live in an America governed under the auspices of Project 2025?
Therefore . . . if Trump is returned to power on Election Day, I plan to move to Canada before Inauguration Day.
I have nothing to lose. I live on my own now. Don't ask me how I became able to do that, you don't need to know. But as I now live on my own, I'm unfettered. I can go wherever I want. I do have a life where I live now, but it's not enough of a life to keep me here. I have virtually no relatives left. I have a few friends, but they're not always available when I want to see them. In fact, they're rarely available. And some of my "friends," it turns out, don't merit the term. Case in point: I was at a social event this past spring and I saw a woman I had been platonically involved with for quite some time, but I hadn't seen her in person since before the pandemic hit. Anyway, I went up to her after so long and said hello to her, and she shook my hand and said it was nice to see me - she acted as if I'd lent her money or something. With "friends" like that . . . Good grief, I have more intimate friendships with people on social media than most people I know live and in person. So I don't feel anything holding me back from leaving the country. Another friend of mine who had more reason to stay here already did.
So why Canada? First of all, proximity. It's a quick drive up Interstate 87 to the border, beyond which lies Montreal. A drive to Toronto via Interstates 80 and 380 and Interstate 81 with a connection to the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway is also doable, and Toronto is the city I'm looking at the most. Second, convenience. Even if I chose to take a mere fraction of my worldly possessions with me, getting them moved across the ocean is far more cumbersome than getting them moved across an imaginary line on the ground or the St. Lawrence River. Third, I have my kittens to think about. I Don't know how I can, or if it's even possible to, transport domestic animals to a European country. And I am not planning to have my kittens rehomed or returned to the cat-fostering service I adopted them from. Whether it's a household with one person or a household with two adults and 2.6 children, household pets are part of the family, and I will not abandon my kittens Chico and Claudia. I have a lifetime commitment to my feline pals - their lifetimes.
There are other reasons I want to move to Canada. Single-payer health insurance is a plus, and I certainly wouldn't mind renouncing my American citizenship with the knowledge that Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. I also get to keep my Sirius XM subscription, as I consider satellite radio to be a necessity. I can count all of the European countries that have sat on zero fingers - and I can tell you after having listened to enough British and Irish music radio that European terrestrial radio isn't much better than American terrestrial radio. And, there are other, more seemingly trivial reasons that I won't discuss here. But the relative ease of escaping to north of the border compared to escaping to Europe, Australia or New Zealand is a big reason in and of itself.
So that's it. I've made my decision. And I plan to see my lawyer to draw up a contingency plan in the very likely event that Trump is back in power six months and change from today. Of course I will vote for Biden in November, but if Trump gets in, I'm getting out. It's that simple.
And I would advise anyone who stands a better and graver chance of being incarcerated or executed for sedition in und Amerikanische Reich than I do to make similar plans. That would include members of the Biden administration . . . and President Biden himself.
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