69
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
(www.wsj.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
69 points (98.6% liked)
politics
29623 readers
131 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I would prefer Americans stay in their shitty country and fix it themselves.
Yeah just like those other refugees fleeing repressive regimes across Eastern Europe and the southern hemisphere! Go back and fix the problems yourselves with your zero money or political power and total surveillance states.
/s in case it's not blindingly obvious.
No, no — you misspelled 'America bad'.
Now, repeat after me: America bad. See, it's not that hard!
The one's leaving are generally mostly the group of people who have been trying to fix it.
I don't think they owe anyone shit.
The ones leaving tend to be the professional class with the excess income and transferable job skills, typically with family abroad who can take them in once they depart.
The ones left behind tend to be the young and unemployed, the pensioners, and the minority-majority working class who can't afford the bureaucratic cost of updating their citizenship.
Flies in the face of Contractualism as a theory of civilization. I hope you're not a big fan of Rawls, Locke, Proudhorn, or Kant.
At some point, we each have a moral debt to one another that is within our capacity to fulfill. I might argue that people who feel the urge to expatriate are driven by their belief that they can no longer productively benefit their communities.
Are we telling someone "you have an obligation to feed your children"? Sure. Reasonable. But what if they've been banned from entering the grocery store?
I don't think anyone is obligated to martyr themselves in the face of a murderous paramilitary. Certainly not when both major parties appear happy to extend this American Gestapo a blank check for materials and manpower. But, at some point, we gotta fight them over here if we don't want to fight them over there.
Fascism doesn't end at America's borders, as anyone in Cuba or Venezuela or Iran or Gaza can tell you.
Which are also usually people who voted for Harris.
I think there was once a time I could have been in favor of this as at least an opt-in as it would benefit everyone to work collectively. Before Trump won a second time.
But now I'm seeing that the average US person is either aggressively anti-intellectual or petulantly virtue ethicist. And I don't want anything to do with most of them. If they're drowning, they'd drag me down with them if I tried to pull them out of the water.
Right now, realistically if I moved out I'd be pretty poor, so I'm just banking on the democrats winning in 2028 as they are very likely going to, then before shit starts collapsing anyway hopefully that will provide a few years to save up and move. I'm not waiting for another republican presidency to potentially happen after this. I know I might be fucked anyway but that's the best plan I can execute.
Every option is a risk. Some are better odds with better payouts.
To be fair, the ones with the desire and means to leave probably don’t have much overlap with the morons causing the problems
Do you say the same about Ukrainians? Iranians? Palestinians? Turks?
Hard to fix decades of shitty education, racism, corruption and institutional collapse.
Anyone who has been following the liberals' hostile attitude towards the Russian exodus is laughing up their sleeves at this.
But also, the whole theory that you're a prisoner of your national origin and should... idk... Rambo your way to freedom, because the "Half a Genocide" party lost a few swing states to the "Full Genocide" party? Feels like we're echoing the same fascist talking points of the MAGA crowd.
Might as well tell a bunch of Jews to stick around Germany and fix the Holocaust.
As an American, so do I. Unfortunately, a lot of people are deciding it's not worth it. The good thing is, the more skilled labor that leaves the US, the less GDP the US will have in the long run. In other words, skilled labor leaving is a good way to speedrun the collapse of a shitty empire.
Good on you for having the spine here
They cause this themselves by refusing to vote or voting in lunatics for years and years, among the most pissweak of excuses for their fall.
They continue to blame every single institution for that fall.
Now, they want to run and leave it collapse. Will they run again when the US tries to do it in their new country? None of us got the opportunity to vote in that election.
Fuck the downvotes you get, they hate the mirror. They could still fix this and take their country back if they went through some hardship on a general strike but nup, see ya.
They can’t take responsibility though. You can see it through these replies.
Edit: second paragraph
That’s what I thought too. We don’t need Americans to make our country shitty. We have enough troubles with our own far right parties. Keep those people away from us and try to get your shit together.
Yeah! It's always the refugees' fault for the problems they're fleeing. Grab yer fuckin bootstraps, my dudes.
/s obvs