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. 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, painting, carpeting, and deep cleaning. The
house we loved, and hoped to spend our lives in, needs to look its best so that
we can sell it for someone else to enjoy.
Allow me to introduce myself, albeit anonymously. I have spent my academic and
professional career studying and forecasting democratic decline, fascism, and
genocide. I’m also transgender. My heart wants to stay; it aches when I watch
my kids pick through beloved childhood belongings, trying not to cry as they
decide what will come with them to our smaller future home. My head, however,
knows that it is time to leave. Especially given the bleak future we all face
if we stay.
This decision is a result of both my professional analysis of the situation, as
well as my own uniquely personal reasons. But I have spent the better part of a
decade war-gaming out what is happening to our government, and here are the
over-arching motivations spurring our move:
* Successful consolidation of power by the autocrat
* Failure of opposition to coalesce
* There is little hope of meaningful recovery
* Destruction of government capability
* A significant risk of genocide aimed at transgender people
* I personally can do far more to fight this outside the US than inside
I will cover each of these in turn."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
