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You no longer live in NY so you are doing nothing to turn the state around.

I did my part while I still lived there, and I voted and I urged my family members and friends to go an vote. But, the numbers weren't in my favor nor in the republicans' favor; they still aren't, not by a long shot. One can only do so much, and staying and indirectly supporting socialism wasn't what I wanted anymore.

However, by leaving, I do feel that I'm doing more to help turn that state around, than by staying. Without my support and without the support of republicans, the state can only turn to ruins much faster, which would usher in, hopefully, a new beginning. Staying only prolongs the misery for everybody.

We are losing our country.

But, we haven't lost it yet. And, starting on Nov 2nd, we can be on the way to getting it back on track. However, some states will take longer to recover from the misery unleashed on them from socialism.

Now is the time to stand and fight.

I've often heard that your vote counts. But, in New York and California and other liberal bastions, where the liberals outnumber conservatives by millions, your vote only get lost in the trash bins after the election is over. In other words, your vote in those liberal states is mostly inconsequential. The long-term prognosis for such liberal bastions, even if we can get a few victories in-between, is more socialism. Not supporting them by leaving just makes them unsustainable a little faster, and, hopefully, big changes could then occur much sooner.

Running to a "safe" place protects no one but you.

Wrong!

Yeah, it helps me, but it helps everybody to not just continue to support that which you no longer believe in.

When enough people and businesses leave a state, the tax base decreases, and, the state and socialism cannot sustain themselves. Socialism is very dependent upon the well-to-do and the rich and lots of businesses for sustenance. Without the support of those who have left, the spending has to decrease, and taxation has to be brought down. If spending and taxation are not brought down, then it's only a matter of time before the collapse of that states' economy. We started to see the effects of a lowered tax base in such economies as New Jersey and California and even New York. New Jersey now has one of the most conservative governors ever elected to office and that's because the people noticed that socialism was beginning to kill them. But, I fear that the long-term direction in New Jersey is still for more socialism. It takes more than just a conservative governor to change things in that state. It takes some very dire lessons inflicted upon the voters for them to realize that, socialism cannot be tolerated any more.

And if creeping socialism isn't fought in places like NY, there won't BE anymore "safe" states, socialism will get them all.

Staying and remaining part of the tax base just serves to sustain their big spending and high taxation habits. One way to fight is to leave such liberal bastions. Staying only helps them. Though you may think that working from within is the best way possible to effect change, leaving might make those changes come quicker. But, as far as I was concerned, being outnumbered as I and all republicans were/are, moving out was a better and wiser choice.

Moving out of New York was not an easy decision, not after living there for more than 30 years, and with an established career and with a family to support. But, I needed to make a change for the better and staying in New York was not for the better.