Hopefully they don’t say, “This Red state is nice, but they need sensible laws about regulating rent, about quotas for LGBTQWERTY people, about the environment, about having fair taxes, about what type of car you can drive, about gun control, about... everything!”
That’s EXACTLY what they say after moving.
Don’t forget parks, sidewalks, bike paths, city beautification programs, mandatory recycling. The list goes on and on.
When I moved to a cute little town 8 years ago, I couldn’t believe such a great place still existed in America. About 6 months after moving in, a neighbor asked me if I had voted in the primary for the townspeople, and I told her no. She was shocked!
I explained to her that I was still quite new and didn’t know one person from another yet, and so couldn’t tell who was worse or better for any particular office, but that in general, it looked like people had things under control. I told her, too, that it was such a nice place to live, I wanted to figure out how they did all that, and I didn’t want to mess it up. She thought THAT was pretty neat.
Fast forward 8 years, and all I hear is the word “progress” anymore. My adopted little town will become just like every other suburb very soon, with out of control growth, and not enough infrastructure to keep it together.
Too late, already happened here 40 years ago. Now it’s just accelerating.
“Hopefully they don’t say, “This Red state is nice, but they need sensible laws about regulating rent, about quotas for LGBTQWERTY people, about the environment, about having fair taxes, about what type of car you can drive, about gun control, about... everything!”
Conservatism is relative. What would be considered conservative in some places would be downright liberal where I live. I’m sure everybody on FR would claim to be conservative. On a post the other day about gun permits several people were arguing that you should not be allowed to carry a gun without providing government with proof of training (I do not care to rehash the argument, just using it as an example). To me, their position is not conservative, but to them, because THEY think it’s necessary, it should be required.
Stage one of the progressive cancer is “bike paths”
Stage two is traffic circles
Stage three is the once all local city council is now full of older out of state progressives
Stage four is an art festival
It is terminal when the homeless camps pop up every where.
The last two cities I lived in died this way.