[admissionsguy]

Yes, quite excited about it actually. Personally, I will be most likely moving to the USA within two years (finally figured out EB2-NIW is the way to go). Nowhere else does one pay relatively small taxes and get 11 carrier strike groups out of it! Globally, there is even more to look forward to - tech (bio, space), politics (left seems to be waning), economy are all looking good. If there is something I am worried about, it's the barbarians, but the issue will take a bit more than 10 years to come to a head (and in any case, it's never the barbarians that take down empires).

[giantg2]

"left seems to be waning"

Is it? The country is divided mostly in an urban vs rural way. Each area is basically aligned the same as it always was. If anything, urban sprawl and transplants are causing more areas to become urbanized and lean left.

[BillyTheMage]

It's not even "left", it's Democrats. Most actual leftists are out in the country too scared for their lives to do much public organizing.

[giantg2]

Depends on how far left we are talking. Based on the party goals/statements it's typically that Democrats are left and Republicans are right. Obviously there is a spectrum, but that seems to be true in the aggregate and reflected in the types of laws being enacted in the municipalities or states.