GONERS ALL! Do you miss all those people who were going to “leave the country” if George W. Bush were reelected?
I don' t miss them at all.
In fact, I find it rather difficult to miss people who haven't gone anywhere!
And those people, who, during the later days of the election, were proclaiming loudly it was, their sworn intent to depart these enslaved shores for foreign havens of peace and security if George W. won over John Kerry.
I knew two gentlemen who threatened to go to England. As their intent, it seems, to arrange for an address in Greater London and, then, continue the schedule they have maintained in recent years dividing their time on long visits to Las Vegas and Florida. One rather elegant lady who have proclaiming she would be going to France to live, told me she had b been forced to change her plans when, in the final days of our election, she heard for the first time, that during the tenure of George Bush in the White House that both the British and French fleets of super-sonic “Concorde”, flying-wing aircraft had – during the tenure of George W. Bush, and that neither of them had regular schedules flying to and from Europe. “ How, then was one expected to travel? By common steamer, perhaps, or by noisy, dirty and so much smaller an so much smaller aircraft named with just numbers, mind you ...there was one called the 7-4-7, I think rather than legitimate names with meaning, character and permanence!”
I heard of two men who planned their post-election exodus to either Norway and/or Sweden. They happened to talk with a visitor from one of those socially advanced nations and mentioned what percentage of his income he might consider to be his very own where he lived. They took a vote among the two of them and decided to cancel their reservations. Entertainers – dabbling in political life are prime candidates for self-exile. Babara Streisand claimed to be one of them, but she is still with us according to rumors which work their way into the news now and again. TV, film, and Internet persons and personalities when pestered by promises of perfect places are eager to project their talents elsewhere when the exodus actually seems to be getting started on once again.
Right now it seems to be at a virtual standstill.
The “goers”, who seldom because actual “goners” are good for another three years or so until aroused by political factionalism. It may well be that some of them have, from time to time, made good on their promise or threat. Hence the overseas travel-term: “The Ugly American”.
A.L.M. April 4, 2005 [c461wds]
