Posted on 08/06/2016 8:30:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
ASKED by an out-of-stater where the nearest shooting range is, Patrick Leavitt, an affable gunsmith at Riverman Gun Works in Coeur d’Alene, says: “This is Idaho—you can shoot pretty much anywhere away from buildings.” That is one reason why the sparsely populated state is attracting a growing number of “political refugees” keen to slip free from bureaucrats in America’s liberal states, says James Wesley, Rawles (yes, with a comma), an author of bestselling survivalist novels. In a widely read manifesto posted in 2011 on his survivalblog.com, Mr Rawles, a former army intelligence officer, urged libertarian-leaning Christians and Jews to move to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and a strip of eastern Oregon and Washington states, a haven he called the “American Redoubt”.
Thousands of families have answered the call, moving to what Mr Rawles calls America’s last big frontier and most easily defendable terrain. Were hordes of thirsty, hungry, panicked Americans to stream out of cities after, say, the collapse of the national grid, few looters would reach the mostly mountainous, forested and, in winter, bitterly cold Redoubt. Big cities are too far away. But the movement is driven by more than doomsday “redoubters”, eager to homestead on land with lots of water, fish, and big game nearby. The idea is also to bring in enough strongly conservative voters to keep out the regulatory creep smothering liberty in places like California, a state many redoubters disdainfully refer to as “the C-word”
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Interesting Leftist Economist take.
That won't go over well in the American Redoubt.
Eh. It could happen tomorrow. But more likely in 10,000 years from now. In any case, it’ll happen after we all kick the bucket.
It’s too bad winters are brutal and the growing season is short. Kind of makes it not ideal.
I just drove part of the Oregon Trail a few weeks ago when driving between Seattle and Boise. It’s definitely Trump country as evidenced by the many signs posted along the way.
The comma in his name is to remind you he’s an arrogant a-hole.
Just read this “comma” at Sipseystreet,
Cheese_o Man,,,
He is an asshat!
And yes, we're quite conservative here despite the liberal lunacy that our Blue state, (think Seattle) is known for.
Prepper too.
Ping.
Too cold for me! I’m sticking with Missouri or points south-but not too far south.
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