My plan is leaving America and going to where people have more have more gray matter and less pudding for a brain.
That was our plan fifteen years ago. We could see the writing on the wall for America's future, and realized that life could be much better elsewhere. So, we had a house built in Mexico in 2005 and moved into it upon retirement in 2009, where we have lived since a mile high on a mountain lake. COVID has made the improvement less, since we don't enjoy the community and local culture these days, and Mexico's COVID response has been about as incompetent as America's, but we've been glad to be away from gun culture, open racism, harshly divided people about half of which I didn't want to live among, weaponized religion, and more. Now, add the authoritarianism, police brutality, civic unrest, and another black kid being killed by the police every week. You can do better than that.
This government is as corrupt as the American one, and does as little for its people, but in this case, it's because the government can't do better. It has never had access to the kinds of money the American government spends. Nor do we pay through the nose for so little back.
In America, the government chooses to treat the people as capitol and give them just enough to keep working. They will not be benefiting from the fruits of capitalism as their grandparents did when the American middle class was prosperous, just like these people.
And we enjoy other benefits. We live among happy people. Our weather is excellent (we have and need no central air or heat), the prices are much better, we can get most medications over-the-counter without a doctor's visit and prescription, and we've gotten 6-8% interest on our savings.
The point is that anybody that can leave the States ought to consider doing so, and sooner rather than later. One more cycle of a Republican administration tanking the economy and rolling back consumer protections followed by a Democratic president to restore some balance. Bill Clinton inherited Bush 41's recession and delivered a balanced budget, which Bush 43 then trashed with what was considered a major recession only 11-12 years ago, which Obama restored only to have another Republican tank the economy. Each cycle is three steps back followed by one forward.
Is anybody expecting anything different in the future? Trump's failures (three steps back) will lead to another Democratic administration cleaning up some of the mess (1 step forward), followed by an electorate, which really isn't fit to self-govern any longer and hasn't been for some time now, forgetting how much Trump terrified them, and under the influence of incessant conservative indoctrination media, will irrationally and self-destructively return to hating Democrats and electing Republicans. How much more of this will it take for America to be dangerous to live in?
That's what I mean by getting out as soon as feasible. Do you want to be around what's likely coming in America? How much damage will the narcissist do after he is rejected? Is he any different from the narcissists you see on true crime shows that kill when rejected? Will there be war on the streets, perhaps at his command? I don't know, but I'd rather find out from Mexico.
There is a better life available to you if you can leave. Not everybody can, whether because of debt without offsetting equity or savings, or family obligations, or whatever.
But for us, it was possible, and it was a big improvement in quality of life as well as a huge relief to be so much less entrained in America's failures. We're insulated from Supreme Court appointments, or the collapse of the Post Office, mass shootings and gun culture (people here don't walk around in fatigues carrying assault rifles into Wal-Mart), domestic terrorism, intense personal selfishness wherever you turn, encroaching fascism, and much more of the worst of American life.
Anyway, it sounds like you have the right idea, and I wanted to encourage you look seriously for ways out.
