Posted on 06/17/2020 7:44:45 PM PDT by Politically Correct
The Departure
Many thoughtful Christian residents of our blue states have toyed with the idea of relocating for years now. But, as Newton taught us, an object at rest tends to remain at rest. There were real annoyances associated with staying put, but that is what they were thought to be — annoyances. The taxes were high, the governments were incompetent and officious, regulations were increasingly intrusive, and so on. And so the thought of maybe someday was constantly in the back of a lot of minds.
And then 2020 hit us amidships, and this brought with it a dark realization. Things can move from annoying to intolerable pretty rapidly. There was such a desperate desire to wreck the economy before the fall election, in order to take that advantage away from the president, that multiple leaders of multiple states were willing to crash the well-being of their own states to accomplish it. To be fair, a number of red state governors went along because peer pressure is a powerful force, and has been since junior high. But even those red state governors, who didn’t rise to the nobility levels of South Dakota, were far more interested in opening up again than have been power-tripping blue state governors.
Then, after having been in lock down for a couple of months, George Floyd was killed, and the following protests were promptly shanghaied by rioting commies. So you were holding on, holding on, holding on, maybe we can open the shop up soon, and instead of that, you were confronted by rioters burning down businesses, left unprotected by governors and mayors who ordered police departments to stand down.
Put all of this together, and you quite naturally found yourself thinking about greener pastures.
A Few Things to Remember
Here are a small handful of things to remember as you are making this decision, presented in no particular order.
Wherever you are, there will be sadness when you depart. You will have friends and connections, and you know you will miss them. But honestly, this is a feature of the world God made for us to live in. The life of the apostle Paul was filled with hard good-byes. You don’t desert the place where you are planted for trivial reasons, but it is reasonable to do so for reasons.
You might feel like you are deserting your post. You are afraid of what might happen to your church if you and the other two “salt and light” families leave. You are seeing clear signs that the elder board is starting to go woke on you. And the answer is that what is likely to happen to the church if you leave is also likely what is going to happen to it if you don’t leave. But if you don’t leave, and the thing burns down, then it burns down with you and your kids there.
Take care that you don’t view the place where you are going as some sort of utopia. People are going to be doing the human thing there also, and arrival in such a place is not going to solve all your problems for you. There is a kind of student who resolves to get better grades next semester by means of reorganizing his notebook and sharpening his pencils. Easier than studying. Wherever you move, you ought to think of it as a place of opportunity, and not as a place of solutions. Wherever you go, there you are.
Don’t move to Texas from California, and then start voting in ways that will turn Texas into California. This is another way of saying that many Christians will flee conditions that they helped to create, and which they on many occasions unwittingly defended. They don’t like how the fruit tastes, but they helped to plant the orchard. So if you move to a red state, realize that you will be tempted to track more than a little blue state in. Be careful.
I am sure I will have occasion to write about this more as the thing unfolds. For the present, suffice it to say that this is an honorable and wise opportunity to consider.
People are in fact beginning to relocate to red states.
Beginning? Beginning? It has been going on for some time.
The results? Red states turning Purple. Purple states turning Blue. Liberals do not equate with logic. If they were of logical mind they would not be Leftists. Instead, they are Cancer. They metastasize.
ocrp1982 wrote:
“Beginning? Beginning? It has been going on for some time.
The results? Red states turning Purple. Purple states turning Blue. Liberals do not equate with logic. If they were of logical mind they would not be Leftists. Instead, they are Cancer. They metastasize.”
Not if the conservative moves from a blue state to a red one.
Is this paragraph supposed to mean something?
Yes beyond terrible libs have no interest in learning
The problem is, that conservatives in Blue states relocations to Red states is outnumbered by Leftists relocating to Red states. I have read that there is actually a Democrat strategy involved in the relocation effort.
Dems have a strategy such as Turn Texas Blue.
Whatever the reason the trend is clear. Purple turn Blue. Blue turn Purple. And, it’s all happening in formerly solid Red states.
Now, in former Rust Belt states Donald Trump has surprised so many by reversing this decades-long trend in what were considered sure thing Blue states. Hellery’s Blue Wall crumbled.
I believe it is this fact that has caused the dems to go Bat Shit Crazy and caused the Blood Lust against President Trump. Trumps win in those Blue Wall states has scared the crap out of the dems. And, they have gone into full war mode against President Trump because of this fact. They were shocked he won their Blue Wall states.
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LOLOL!!! Sorry...this sentence made me remember the day I left New Joisey for good! I did return to visit years later and it was one of the happiest days of my life when I realized what I was missing!
I’ve thought about moving to a different climate, and it turns out all the blue state refugees are driving up the property prices, of course.
Yeah, sounds like maybe you should stay in your blue state.
They should stay away from red states. We eat babies, the roaches are as big as dogs and the mosquitos are the size of house-cats and can talk!
It’s terrible. Stay away. Your leftist utopia is much better.
Really, you voted for it. You own it. Don’t bring it here.
“They should stay away from red states. We eat babies, the roaches are as big as dogs and the mosquitos are the size of house-cats and can talk”!
“It’s terrible. Stay away. Your leftist utopia is much better”.
They don’t. They purposefully invade Red States. It is a strategy Republicans do not have an answer to. Republicans, as usual, are clueless and ineffective or, worse they are complicit in Dems strategy. A collection of Gutless Cowards who merely give Lip Service to opposition. But, in reality have no fight in them.
Wait just a bit longer...and the prices will be higher.
He who hesitates is lost.
Yeah, you’re right. The exodus will only get worse.
Here in East Tennessee, our realtor said that 70% of the houses he sells are to people moving from other states. Prices haven’t gone up yet but as supply and demand reach a certain level, they will.
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