American here, and if I may comment about one point you made

both being more progressive than most US politician(s)

We don’t really have progressive politicians, (Bernie Sanders may be the exception?) only some less conservative than the others. It’s eventually going to fall like Rome, probably in my lifetime. I just hope that some other place is willing to take me in when it does, and that I also have the means to get there. That is, if Mother Earth doesn’t decide to exorcize all of us first.