If you don't like it, leave!

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This statement is commonly made by super-patriot types against those who don't like this country. Their argument is simple in theory, "if you hate it so much then you can leave." But I am so aggravated at these people's ignorance that I feel I must comment on this.

If it were that easy, I'm sure more people would, but the fact of the matter remains that it is NOT that simple. People have friends and family in the area that they live in, they have a house, they have property, they have proximity to valuable things like education and grocery stores etc. If they wanted to leave they would have to sell their house, a lot of their house-hold objects that would be too big to move (considering that the only two continental options to move to would be Canada and Mexico and if you were not fond of either the other options are too far away to lug such things as lawnmowers and china sets etc.). Another hurdle would be arguably the most important; leaving your friends and family behind. All your life you are brought up in a certain area in a certain society that all have things in common, an American culture if you will. There is certain to be culture shock in moving to a new country, a culture shock that those individuals may not want.

So just because people disagree with this nation's government or hate what this country has become doesn't mean they should leave the country.

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security" - Declaration of Independence

Don't Let the Government control us, remember that we control the governent, or at least we should...