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Dear Americans, Get Out!
Before it is too late.
Love affairs always end in tears. You might think you can hide it and get away with a few forbidden indulgences, but no, everyone in the restaurant can see you playing footsie under the table. This has never been more true than with the US’s long-time affair with fascism. With its trademark lack of subtlety, US politics has been sloppily tugging off fascism beneath the tablecloth for decades. The only thing keeping this romp beneath the surface was shame. The fear that the country’s “friends”, or rather those the US pressured into being its friends, would revolt in disgust. Well, these days, we have a president who appears to have undergone a shame-ectomy at birth, the “land of the free” openly gags on authoritarianism for the world to see, and Lady Liberty has run out of the restaurant in tears. Trump might have claimed that he would “drain the swamp”, but, like a red-pilled Shrek, all he wants to do is frolic in this filth with his white supremacist oligarch friends, and he is willing to violate anyone who disturbs his debauchery. That includes you. It’s time to vacate the swamp before you are drowned in its sludge. It’s time to leave the restaurant before you are slapped with the cheque. It’s time to get out of the United States — before it is too late.
