“If Texas goes blue, I’d just find a way to leave the country. It might take several years, but I would do it, and not just talk about it like C-list celebrities.”
Same. Not sure how to do it at that point, as we would be third world. We are second world right now. I think it is the long term trend.
Exile sucks.
Look at the list of countries freer than the US:
http://www.freetheworld.com/2016/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2016.pdf
The list grows longer every year.
Canada is #5!
Chile seems attractive. Real estate is cheap and it is on the verge of becoming a developed country.
First World: U.S. Canada, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel.
Second World: Communist countries.
Third World (or, as I prefer to call it, the Turd World): Poor countries with the potential to become reasonably prosperous if their population gets educated and can work under a sensible set of laws. IMHO, it isn’t very likely that any of these nations will progress to true prosperity.
Fourth World: Poorest of the poor, no hope to fix it.
We’re still First World, but rapidly descending through the ranks.