As a leftist that would be the smartest move. Pack your bags and leave with your family/friends the moment you sniff something's up. The government absolutely knows your ideology and you beliefs, and in the case of a civil war, the government would be more than willing to "accidently" out any leftists to make sure they are removed first. With leftists removed, the outcome of the civil war would be either a good result or better result from the perspective of the ruling class.
I would start planning now. You already have fascists storming the capital and the democrats are obviously going to ramp up the police state in response because there clearly wasn’t enough security in their view.
Obviously you can’t leave until after COVID, but if the actual event starts you wont be able to make it over without a lot of prep work done in advance. Immigrating is hard at the best of times, doing it when you have to worry about car bombs going off regularly is not something you want to do. Countries move slowly and wont be taking ‘refugees’ either for fear of offending whatever power wins until it’s clear the situation is completely out of control. Even after that they still wont want to take them for fear of the instability being exported. Look at how the EU is handling immigration from the Middle East. When your countrymen have a reputation for blowing up anyone suggesting socialized health care since it’s communism, how many countries will look favorably on fresh immigration from there? The US is very far away geographically from the rest of the world limiting your options further to effectively Canada, Mexico and interstate travel. The time to get 80% of the way out of the US is now.
As a leftist that would be the smartest move. Pack your bags and leave with your family/friends the moment you sniff something's up. The government absolutely knows your ideology and you beliefs, and in the case of a civil war, the government would be more than willing to "accidently" out any leftists to make sure they are removed first. With leftists removed, the outcome of the civil war would be either a good result or better result from the perspective of the ruling class.
I would start planning now. You already have fascists storming the capital and the democrats are obviously going to ramp up the police state in response because there clearly wasn’t enough security in their view.
Obviously you can’t leave until after COVID, but if the actual event starts you wont be able to make it over without a lot of prep work done in advance. Immigrating is hard at the best of times, doing it when you have to worry about car bombs going off regularly is not something you want to do. Countries move slowly and wont be taking ‘refugees’ either for fear of offending whatever power wins until it’s clear the situation is completely out of control. Even after that they still wont want to take them for fear of the instability being exported. Look at how the EU is handling immigration from the Middle East. When your countrymen have a reputation for blowing up anyone suggesting socialized health care since it’s communism, how many countries will look favorably on fresh immigration from there? The US is very far away geographically from the rest of the world limiting your options further to effectively Canada, Mexico and interstate travel. The time to get 80% of the way out of the US is now.