Tired of the constant weight of well… everything.
Collusion, graft, dishonesty, racism, lies and all the rest is making Americans at home and abroad very sensitive to the effects of political stress
(* I know… politics are a man-made construct that could be transitioned into something useful if we wanted but we’d have to be committed to acting in the interests of the common good and who has time for that!)
It’s all becoming too much.
In fact, we expat Americans have developed a new salute to let each other know when we’ve reached the edge of reason …
Back hunched, head lowered, right-hand palm against forehead & left hand and index finger waving wildly from left to right, it is a new signal that is used when the onslaught of controversy from the homeland becomes too much!
But more than that, it is an indicator, a sign that illustrates how badly even we, who are by definition, away from it all need to get away from it all.
As any Expat can tell you the flight from your homeland comes with a certain sense of impotence, a disconnect that never truly leaves you until you return home, or so I’m told.
Expat or not Americans are already worn paper thin by the Trump Error and though it is thought that Americans don’t travel well, in the aid of mental preservation I do suggest that you consider it, after all this may continue for some time, as much as 4 years!
We gotta pace ourselves, we’ll never make it if we go on as we have this last year, we gotta go easy.
I know what you say…
“ You wanna get even”… Well, Get Cool
“You wanna BUST!”… I say bust Cool
You wanna GO!”… Go cool
So, if we’re gonna stay cool, it’s important that we somehow cut ourselves loose for a while.
You need time to remember that without us there is no America.
You need time to reacquaint yourselves with the REAL enemy of the people.
You need to start to think again… not react.
But where?
Where can a weary American go these days to decompress… reassess?
Mexico used to be a good place but not so much anymore.
North to see our good friends?
They’ve always shown a bit of tolerance and an ear for a good explanation
Of course, we’d have to have an explanation to offer and although it’s the simplest thing in the world, somehow we have not quite wrapped our collective heads around how to voice that explanation.
Or maybe one of the many nice Caribbean islands?
Oh right…
that whole business with Puerto Rico…
Cuba & Jamaica…
maybe not the Caribbean
Maybe Sweden!
Hmmm… Maybe too many questions there… and as a modern American probably best to stay away from stressful situations like a social structure known to be inquiring or the effects of “the midnight sun”…
In fact…anything that leads the mind to wander is probably not advised.
I mean we can't have Americans out in the world ... Thinking... no, that wouldn't do!
What you need is a place where being American still has its potency…
still has some cache,
a place where Bullshit is still spoken!
Maybe Moscow?
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