"Goodbye Donald!" in the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper
"Goodbye Donald!" appeared in the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on May 18th. It may interest American readers because it concerns their fellow countrymen who want to leave the country to escape perceived threats posed by Trump-administration policy-initiatives. The article carries quotes from an interview with John Moore, an I.T. manager from California who supports left-wing policy-making. It also interviews Nick Speach and his wife Christina Hinz, who work in I.T. in Maryland. Like Moore, they want to move to Germany.
There has been no end of celebrities in America threatening to leave America. Their delaying their departures has led even sympathetic media to ask "Are you still leaving?" in a tongue-in-cheek tone. Of course. Nobody really wants to leave America. Maybe that will help Americans understand why so many Jews, under threat from the Nazis, chose not to leave Germany and other countries until it was too late. Especially for wealthy people, the problem is all the fixed assets that they would have to unload. Better to wait until the next election, when they can hopefully boot the guy out. Moore's sense of urgency about leaving, however, driven by his paranoia about the intentions of the Trump administration borders on the theatrically ridiculous.
Moore's first contact with the Frankfurter Allgemeine, for example, came over a video phone-call. Moore concealed his location by covering the space behind him with a sheet and wore a ghetto-type sweat-jacket with a hoodie and a mask to conceal his identity. He spoke "very cautiously" the article reports and said, "I have a lot of anxiety about the future." If he had additional reasons for fearing the Trump administration, other than his left-wing views, he did not share them. Speach and Hinz will only admit is that they support Bernie Sanders.
The most ridiculous part of this story is that they and the American celebrities would rather flee to an established country than create their own country, based on their own value system. The reason they don't do this is because they don't really believe in their own value system. The Left probably also realizes it has a shallow base of support. Given the choice, most Americans would stick with the Republicans and gain control of them via an election coup, even though this approach poses its own risks.
They should have learned from the Jews who realized belatedly that they needed their own country. That Israel has succeeded so well proves the point that faith in oneself comes only from trying new things. Necessity is the mother of invention, and all that. There is plenty of talent on the Democrat side. That they are not using it to create a sympathetic-nation prototype makes me wonder if their problem lies in existential inertia. I mean, shouldn't they already be doing something? Maybe, like the Jews in Germany, it has to get a lot worse before they will move.