Don't tease. You'll be back no more than eight hours later. Looking for food.
But we absolutely must dispense with the notion that we are weak, godless, cowardly, disorganized, crazy, too liberal, naive, amoral, "loose, irrelevant, outmoded, stupid and soon to be extinct.
For the record: you are not wholly disorganized. :)
"Then you walk out the door, taking the kids and gays and minorities with you, and you start a new life."
You're right. They shouldn't tease...it's too serious a matter for that. Nor should they let our border gates hit their backsides on the way out.