Staying somewhere your kids practice active shooter drills because the mountains are pretty is the wildest form of Stockholm syndrome I've ever witnessed. Beauty exists everywhere. Mountains and beaches and forests and deserts exist in countries where school is just school and medical care doesn't bankrupt you and political violence isn't Tuesday. The "but America is so beautiful and diverse" argument is people prioritizing vacation aesthetics over daily safety. You're choosing Instagram backdrops over whether your family survives going to grocery store or school or movie theater. Every single landscape type in America exists somewhere else. Often somewhere safer, cheaper, with better quality of life and actual functioning systems that don't actively harm you. Want mountains? Switzerland, Austria, Chile, New Zealand. Want beaches? Portugal, Thailand, Greece, dozens of Caribbean and Pacific islands. Want deserts? Morocco, Jordan, Australia. Want forests? Germany, Canada, Scandinavia. Want all of it in one country? Australia and New Zealand have everything. Acting like American geography is so uniquely stunning that it justifies staying while country descends into authoritarianism is choosing scenery over survival. That's not appreciation for natural beauty. That's using nature as excuse to avoid uncomfortable reality that staying is choice you're actively making. Nobody's saying there aren't gorgeous places in America. But gorgeous places don't protect you from political violence, medical bankruptcy, educational failure, or systemic collapse. Pretty mountains don't stop ICE from murdering people. National parks don't prevent school shootings. You're not staying for the beauty. You're staying because leaving is hard and scary, and "but it's so beautiful here" sounds better than "I'm too afraid to leave even though I know I should." The landscape isn't going to comfort your kids when they're traumatized from lockdown drills or comfort you when medical emergency bankrupts you or make authoritarianism less authoritarian because at least you can look at redwoods on weekend. There are people in stunningly beautiful countries all over the world living calmer, safer, healthier lives than Americans living in equally beautiful parts of America. The difference isn't the landscape. It's the systems. Stop romanticizing geography as if natural beauty compensates for human-created dysfunction. Mountains don't make fascism acceptable. Beaches don't make gun violence tolerable. National parks don't justify staying somewhere your family isn't safe. Link in bio for choosing safety over scenery. What landscape feature is worth staying for? ๐๐บ๐ธ
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I will never understand how the beauty of America is the reason people use to justify stain in the United States, no matter what's actually happening there. As if there's not beautiful landscapes and scenery all over this world that they could go enjoy equally as much, I get it, there's national parks, and I get it, there's a variety of different landscapes throughout the country. But that's true all over this planet, so give me a break that the beauty and the nature in the United States is a reason to stay there. Absolutely not, full stop, there's beautiful places all over this planet that are not allowing our children to be gunned down in school and that are not allowing agents to murder their citizens in the streets. That's just it. You can just leave.
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