You want the piece of land your great-great-grandfather used to own, you want to get out of the city and breathe real air again.
You want soil that isn't filled with poison from factories and mines and big company farms.
There isn't any mystery about it.
The idea that some big shot called your country a shithole? That would be a good thing...
If he did something about it.
But you aren't in the equation.
You're missing.
The people who are talking to each other about what the president said, when he was talking, aren't looking at you. They don't know you. They never will.
You don't have time to try to figure out what they're doing and why -- if you were watching the news. And you aren't watching the news.
You're not a terrorist.
You aren't trying to emigrate.
You're one of the millions and millions of people who will live out their lives where they are.
What a US president said is the least of your worries. The people who are worried aren't worried about you.
You're just trying to keep your sick daughter alive through the night.
You know there has to be revolution in your country. You also know most revolutions are phony, staged to put a new psychopath in the palace. For starters, can you find 10 good people who are smart, courageous, honorable, and willing? Who will mount a plan to eventually go up against the dictator and the foreign colossus behind him?
The odds are very long. But what else is there to do?
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