Why I Am Leaving the USA | Dame Magazine
damemagazine.com · Apr 29
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of planning summer vacation and planting flowers, we're tackling a mountain of overdue home repairs,...





"My family is fleeing the country.
We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
"My family is fleeing the country. [...] It is only a matter of time before Trump and Elon take this next step. Once they have consolidated their power at the federal level, and once their regime is secure enough that public outrage cannot threaten it, they will be free to defy the courts as much as they want. I give it less than six months before we reach that point."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
"California Governor Newsom has decided that his best course of action is to cozy up to the fascists..."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
"California Governor Newsom has decided that his best course of action is to cozy up to the fascists..."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
Extremely chilling text! If you are in the US you absolutely have to read the whole thing, if you are not you should, too. 👇🏼
The odds that we can vote our way out of this in four years seems implausible as well. In competitive autocracies (like ours is becoming), #elections are used as a popular anesthetic. If you give people the false hope that they can change things at the ballot box, they won’t rise up. They live in a perpetual state of hoping “maybe next time.” The #GOP learned this from #Hungary, where #Orban’s Fidez party continually employs this trick. So do the autocratic regimes in Venezuela, Belarus, and elsewhere: #Election wins are rigged, but seem just close enough to keep people from revolting.https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
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Very rarely has a country that has descended this far into #autocracy recovered without outside intervention (like, say, the combined allied armies fighting all the way to your capitol). Most warning signs of impending #genocide are here. I know I’m a pessimist. But, as Jewish producer Billy Wilder once said in 1945, “The optimists all died in the gas chambers. The pessimists have pools in Beverly Hills.” This brutal observation reveals a truth: when it comes to the threat of genocide, listen to the intellectuals … and the pessimists.
#DonaldTrump #Fascism #Trump #Autocracy
"My family is fleeing the country. [...] It is only a matter of time before Trump and Elon take this next step. Once they have consolidated their power at the federal level, and once their regime is secure enough that public outrage cannot threaten it, they will be free to defy the courts as much as they want. I give it less than six months before we reach that point."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
"My family is fleeing the country.
We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
"My family is fleeing the country. [...] It is only a matter of time before Trump and Elon take this next step. Once they have consolidated their power at the federal level, and once their regime is secure enough that public outrage cannot threaten it, they will be free to defy the courts as much as they want. I give it less than six months before we reach that point."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/