cons: You can never come back.
pros: We could send liberals.
I think even a Mars mission, would be a one way mission, and these people are talking about traveling to the NEAREST star? Are they kidding? At 36,000 miles per hour, it might take them 75,000 years to get there. I dont think it will work. Maybe in the millennial kingdom, we can travel there, at the speed of thought, but until then, it belongs in the comic books.
[ cons: You can never come back.
pros: We could send liberals. ]
You forgot the other pro....
If the liberal infection is terminal we could leave the liberals behind...