Advice for Blue State refugees fleeing to Red States; When people flee from a Blue state, they carry more than just their possessions with them

American Thinker ^ | 08/19/2020 | Michael Gray

[SeekAndFind]

Despite the demonstrable fact that dying from COVID is about as likely as you getting a birthday card from a one-armed Himalayan banjo player you've never met, pinhead state governors, city mayors, and local officials all the way down to dogcatchers still insist on maintaining the fiction that merely catching the beerbug is a death sentence and that squashing the things until none of them are left is some sort of life-or-death priority.

These "officials," self-liberated from the burden of actually consulting with others in the give-and-take inherent in representative government, are on power trips that no doubt give them a buzz. (And this isn't confined to the USA; in a satellite feed from Australia, stamped on the wall at least ten times behind their own vacuous version of our equally vacuous governor of California, was an inspiring motto meant to get Aussies through these rough times: "Staying Apart Keeps Us Together" -- definitely one for Orwell.)

Now, we cautiously endorse (with some minor reservations) the Red State/Blue State dichotomy: Red States tend to be inhabited by folks who live frugally, understand and appreciate the virtues of limited government, worship God without threatening others with decapitation, and in general live and let live. Blue States, in contrast, either ignore (but only for a limited time) or actively work against Red State imperatives, either marginalizing them or eliminating them outright as often as they can. They even have a name for it: Progressivism. Blue State authoritarians seem grimly determined to make your life better whether or not you want it, because in their philosophy nothing is worth conserving.

For them exercising the power of the purse (i.e., taxation) is the most effective path to Progress. Consequently, along with some Red State mandarins (yes, unfortunately there are some of those, too),

[SeekAndFind]

THE BOTTOM LINE:

If you are a refugee from the policies of those Blue State politicians that you elected and continued to support for years, and think that you can just mosey over to a Red State, all the while planning to keep your ingrained big government social and political attitudes intact, think again. You're bringing with you something far more dangerous than any biological virus, something that impacts your fellow citizens in ways that can potentially harm them for years to come, possibly forever: your convictions.

Seriously, if you can't muster up at least a tolerance for Red State values, but especially their abiding love of liberty, then you might as well unpack the U-Haul, shelter in place in your safe space, and hope that the petty tyrants you put in positions of power don't make it any worse for you and yours. But, as we've already seen, they can... and they will.

[Da Coyote]

A “refugee” from asordid slimy progressive state who carries with them COVID is far less dangerous than one who carries progressive idiocy.

We can cure COVID. However, progressivism is fatal and the carrier should be permanently sent to a colony outside of earth gravity.

Forever.

Not kidding.

[volunbeer]

This is a very real problem. I have seen several towns that are prime destinations for those fleeing deep blue cities become blue themselves.

We joke about it, but it is not funny. While we are all happy to see our property values rise with the influx of big city money we will not be happy with the end result.

[Stepan12]

They may flee to Conservative states, but they bring their lib/commie nonsense with them. Community pressure should be applied to these clowns so they don’t screw up the Conservative states as they did the lib/commie states that they helped become lib/commie.

[PGR88]

Also, leave your stupid, virtue-signaling, pathetic “hate has no home here,” “black lives matter,” and “science is real” lawn signs where you came from!

[tennmountainman]

They will bring their socialist values with them and destroy a Red State
they move to. Stay the hell away from Red States.

[LostInBayport]

There are those of us temporarily trapped in Blue State Hell who, if and when we escape, will embrace the Red State values because we already have them. Our existence is often ignored in these threads. I just want to move somewhere and be left the hell alone by government (and other people for the most part) as much as possible.

At least the author paid lip service to us in one paragraph.

[brownsfan]

They’re coming, and you can’t stop them. They are sure of their virtue and intellect, and can’t even conceive that their voting patterns are what caused their prior homes to be rendered unlivable.

I have nothing but contempt for them, and wish they would stay in the *$!^hole they helped create.

[Viking2002]

Been saying it until I’m hoarse. They shat the bed; let them sleep in it.

[robel]

Most of them are so deeply committed to voting democrat, they are like the socialist government proponents who say it’s just never been done right. The insane just keep repeating the same mistakes.

[Meatspace]

“Red States tend to be inhabited by folks who live frugally, understand and appreciate the virtues of limited government, worship God without threatening others with decapitation, and in general live and let live. Blue States, in contrast, either ignore (but only for a limited time) or actively work against Red State imperatives, either marginalizing them or eliminating them outright as often as they can.”

Digging even deeper, Red States are all on solid economic footing with extremely low unemployment, the highest paying jobs having access to the most educated workforce. At the same time, Blue States are in the gravest economic despair with little access to fair education and heath care systems and life expectancies of the 18th century.

[Phillyred]

we know you’re there but have too much evidence of our burbs and states getting ruined by the idiot dem refugees.

[sauropod]

I resemble that remark.

... from the People’s Republic of Maryland.

[pepsionice]

I think you can use Nashville as a good example....within the next two election-cycles...it’ll be overwhelmingly blue within a hundred-mile circle of the city. Tax rates will increase, along with urbanized problems that you saw primarily in Seattle/SF.

[alabama_heart]

Well said!

[Scrambler Bob]

then you might as well unpack the U-Haul, shelter in place in your safe space,
= = =

How about they have to self quarantine for 14 YEARS?

[Phillyred]

with socialists, democrats, it is ingrained in their stupid heads that their ideas are correct, but the right people just need to be in charge. Although I will say some suburban dems in my area are starting to wise up to the bs going on lately and are actually considering voting republican/Trump this election.

[RedStateRocker]

That is condescending and idiotic.

but then so are many of the dingbats fleeing California, can’t blame ya too much, can I :-)

As for me, well, I’m a Goldwater Paleo-conservative who loathes what California has become in the last 30 years; have to make it a few more to get that pension, and then Montana or Texas here I come, big ol’ American flag, pick-up truck, custom made cowboy hat, and with as much contempt for this cesspool that Nazi Pelosi and Guv Goodhair have inflicted on us as anyone on this board.

[VTenigma]

You forgot “coexist”.