Well. You and I are in the same boat. Honestly, I would love to move to another state, because even though this state is beautiful and green, with access to history, museums, etc...the politics of this state is toxic to me.
But my wife won’t move on that basis. If she doesn’t go, I don’t go. So here I stay.
I get irritated when I see people on this website (many of whom I genuinely respect) saying I should move out, and that is the only recourse.
My feeling is that a dotted line on a map is not going to stop toxic Leftism from metastasizing. Even Texas and Florida have their own homegrown toxic Leftists, and they aren’t people who all migrated from another state, as much as they wish that to be true. (NOTE: I see this sentiment all the time from a neighboring state that is supposedly more conservative than my state, and they blame the encroaching Leftism in their government on toxic Leftist migrants from my state. That undoubtedly happens, but there are plenty of toxic Leftists who were born there, grew up there, and went to school there. They didn’t migrate. I view this portrayal of evil in their state government as being all people from “one of those Blue States” as intellectually lazy, even if they can find examples of that really happening.)
Foul human nature is inherent in all of us, even natives of Red States, and must be constantly fought.
This is MY country, the USA, not theirs, because I honor the principles that the country is founded on and embodied in our Constitution. They do not honor or observe that.
I am not going to retreat behind a dotted line on a map and surrender territory to them without a fight. And I am getting involved, as much as I hate it, as much as I despise it, and as Quixotic as it may be with no prospect of change, but...I am going to do it.
I pray for all Conservatives imprisoned behind enemy lines. Such as you and yours.
You post very good material and I’m glad to be able to read your material on Free Republic.
Taking care of my wife has always worked for me as well. Which includes letting them stay put in a place they’re comfortable with.
Many red state conservatives like to blame things on the more liberal areas of the country or outsiders destroying their way of life. Much of their problems are actually internal.
They should look in the mirror and see what their political representation actually does instead of the “red rhetoric” that keeps them voting for the same.
All red states have *large corporations and an education sector. Both institutions move people around and have liberal ideas and ideology that don’t have boundaries or borders.
If you study the legislative history of the USA you’ll see its bi partisan, no matter the political parties.
* I count the media as a corporation just like any other corporation.