“I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men’s hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property” – Alexis de Tocqueville

How about adding that we have a beautiful country with lots of natural wonders, but we are allowing it to be raped and demolished for the personal profit of the very few.
They are destroying what belongs to all of us. And I'm most sick of those who live in pristine areas voting AGAINST protecting natural areas. If you are too scared of nature FUCKING MOVE to the burbs. If you don't believe nature should be protected FUCKING MOVE TO HOUSTON.

And all the "religious" white folks. Hey if you are lurking, trolling or if folks here just need a simple confrontational statement here it is:
IF YOU THINK YOU ARE CHRISTIAN and REPUBLICAN, you either don't understand Jesus, or you don't understand republicans.

I'm also sick to death of these obsequious fools waving the flag and shoving it in people's faces while racing toward servile fascism. They don't even understand America. See the whole gun thing isn't about protecting from the government, hell the government could take them out with a drone strike in their sleep. They are just obsessed with the idea of being able to shoot minorities.

But WHERE to go? My wife and I just haven't hit on a great place.

New Zealand and Canada are not wonders of environmental care or equality either. New Zealand is about to allow the fishermen there to destroy the last of the Maui (Hector's) dolphin. Canada is the origin of the tar sands flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline and still allows fishermen to bash in the heads of baby seals because seals "take all of the fish" DESPITE the fact that there were more fish and MORE SEALS before they started raping the ocean with industrialized fishing (the book COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World covers it well). Both nations still struggle with indigenous rights.
France swings from far left to far right like we do and they were the ones that sank a Greenpeace ship in a port in New Zealand that was out to protest nuclear testing in the Pacific.
I almost had her talked into Ireland, but other nations just promote enough doctors. There isn't really a role for Nurse Practitioners. I'm not even sure that my credentials would transfer.
I keep watching all the articles about where US ex-pats are going hoping something will click as I'm sure they will want US level healthcare there.