I cannot disagree. The country is so polarized right now, but unfortunately they’re winning, as much as I hate to say it.
I live in Georgia. It’s gradually turning Purple. I can live with the fact that the cities are Democratic strongholds. I get that. But, in Georgia, north of Atlanta in the 6th Congressional District, a millenial that didn’t even live in the district almost became a member of the House of Representatives. And, during the run-off, he only lost by a little under 4%. That is a scary margin.
Personally, I blame the Governors and Chambers of Commerce of states like Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas for what is happening in those states. Those states are slowly turning. They all ran around the country doing their best to lure big businesses away from their high tax states, giving away the ranch to do it. Those businesses are run by the people you said, Leftist Ideologues who are wealthy enough. So, they take the handout and move all their Leftist/Liberal/Dem voting workers with them, with the promises of bigger, newer houses, lower property taxes, good schools and better weather. They come in droves but one thing they do not do, they do not assimilate into the Southern, Texan, Real Floridian lifestyles. They bring their high tax, government needs to do everything for me, attitude and just ruin the next place. I’m not saying they all have to buy F250 Super Duty’s and start deer hunting. But they bring their Northeastern BS with them, every where they go.
I’m with you. Get rid of them. Or at least partition off the country so they can live their lives with each other and the rest of can live our lives. Only problem with that, they refuse to recognize that their ideas/policies are what causes all the problems. So when sh*t goes crazy, taxes are thru the roof, crime is thru the roof, they’ll be knocking on our door.
I live in Georgia too, and I’m definitely making sure that I vote Republican for a variety of reasons. 1. I refuse to vote for any candidate who would advocate for Abortion (my initial choice for the 2016 Presidential Elections was Ben Carson, and I only ended up choosing Donald Trump after it became apparent he may be our only shot at undoing Roe v. Wade, and even THERE, only after he nominated Mike Pence as his running mate.), which is something the Democrats unfortunately are likely to back, and 2., Due to suffering from ulcerative colitis and having to go through hoops to get the necessary treatments due to AMBetter basically making it too difficult to get the necessary drugs for the infusions, I am simply not interested in voting for anyone who is most likely going to make the insurance issue even worse.
And honestly, you should have seen the redo Republican primary “debate” that was hosted. They only answered ONE question that actually related to their policies (namely, how to handle the highway issues that Atlanta is rather infamous for), and after that, they managed to pretty much snipe each other, with it being made pretty obvious that the so-called “moderators” were instigating the peeing match between the two. I ultimately voted for Kemp since he at least managed to voice a reasonable policy, but I was disgusted by how they turned a debate into a shouting match (and Kemp wasn’t even my original choice, it was Casey Cagle, and I ultimately settled for Kemp after making sure he stood for the right to life.).
If there’s any good news, though, it’s that it’s at least very likely that former mayor Kasim Reed is most likely going to be spending some quality time in the big house due to leaving an obvious paper trail to his embezzlement.
And yeah, we really have to fix those Governors and Chamber of Commerces badly, especially if we are to neuter the Left of any influence. I’d be pretty surprised if Georgia does turn Blue this election, considering it wasn’t too long ago that Snowpocalypse happened (and I don’t thin most people were too happy with Kasim Reid for using the emergency lane at the expense of first responders to get an award. I know my Urban Planning professor most certainly wasn’t). And if Jeffrey Katzenberg gets involved in this election, heck, any of them, that will give me even MORE concern (since that guy was a big radical leftist political animal since the 1972 presidential elections where he worked in John Lindsay’s political campaign, even quit college in order to do so, and there’s evidence that he tried to force in his leftist views to Disney films since Beauty and the Beast up to Pocahontas, not to mention DreamWorks films.).