Somewhere overseas of their own choosing!

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Part of exchange between Angry Reader Expat and Victor Davis Hanson:

“[ARE:] I could go on in much more detail, but suffice it to say, I have never met an American who wasn't either brainwashed or a brainwasher. The only exceptions are the numerous fellow countrymen I have meet [sic] who live somewhere overseas of their own choosing. Only they seem to have been able to rip off the cultural shackles and American blinders and are able to see their country in some sort of realistic way.

VDH: Thank God, you are no longer here in America, and can at last enjoy the socialism you so clearly appreciate. I suppose when Iran sends one of its missiles your way, or an ascendant Russia moves ever closer, or you are hit by terrorists originating from the Middle East, your adopted country will be clearly able to take care of itself. I suggest you compare German experience in Afghanistan for guidance on all this.

[ARE:] So which is it? Are you brainwashed or a brainwasher?

VDH: Neither, just an appreciative rather than ashamed American. But I am gladdened that you matched word with deed and at least left America, and therefore made both of us happier.”

Here at last is a bona fide testimonial to the German alternative for American "cultural shackles and blinders". I offer this information as a public service, for all the Martina Navratilovas and Susan Sarandons remaining in America, who are desperately searching for a way out.

I do advise caution in choosing Germany, however, in consequence of its past treatment of non-Aryans. Nevertheless, there is at least one happy American expat, who claims to know "numerous fellow countrymen" content to "live somewhere overseas of their own choosing". But if such an alternative doesn't quite measure up to your standards, I respectfully suggest you consider some circle of Dante's Inferno, a circle of your "own choosing" of course.