In a falsetto voice "And swim the English Channel" ... Oops, sorry, slipped into "Nick Danger mode" there for a second or two.

Well, maybe I won't be going to Greece . . . Although many of the countries surrounding Greece also have non-black colorings, though gray probably doesn't mean anything other than "no rating." I doubt many Greeks would welcome an older American expatriate. I suppose I could be wrong.

I think it might get "blackest before the dawn" in the USSA. Plus, it didn't take that long (relatively speaking) for Germany to "get better" after its sink into the swamp of Fascism. Hard to know when to say that clock started ticking here, although the 2000 election might be a tempting milestone to map to 1932's German election.

Events happen faster in today's world due to the speed of communication. Of course, I might merely have too much optimism, but that really hasn't been my general reputation. Canada's (better rating, at least at present and) closeness to the upper tier of states in the USSA argues in favor of those states. Brrrrr....

I don't have much hope that any significant lasting positive change will come from the political system (it didn't in Germany either), but events can happen very fast now and in directions that "talking heads" do not predict. Who was buzzing about Soviet collapse in 1985?