If Donald Trump is re-elected in 2020, will you move to another country? Why or why not?
We’re all familiar with the lowlight reel: Leading up to Election Day, Americans saw Trump shamefully mock the handicapped, fondly ponder his opponent’s assassination, publicly ask a hostile foreign power to intervene, and vulgarly brag about sexual assault.
They elected him nonetheless – an alarming failure of judgment.
Compared to other developed countries, America receives poor marks for education, infrastructure, and healthcare. We have the fourth-highest income equality, hampering class mobility – ironically, a mainstay of the American Dream –
and creating a scenario where one in five children live in poverty in what remains the world’s wealthiest nation.
All the while, a lurking albatross of national debt has steadily crept toward its current, untenable $20 trillion milestone.
That said, what Trump’s re-election would do is confirm the creeping suspicion that America as we’ve known it is dead. An adequately functioning democracy requires a critical mass of citizens capable of choosing leaders with baseline competency.
If the country is foolish enough to reelect him, the volatility and unpredictability of our government will more resemble a war-torn third-world nation than the supposed leader of the free world.
