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[–] Chadarius@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (24 children)

This is a good thing. The only way the red states will change is by getting worse and worse. They will have no doctors, teachers, nurses, lawyers, or corporations that will purposefully live or do their work there if they can help it. If you are a woman, a person of color, a migrant, an LGBTQ person, a child, or anything other than an old white man, the red states are no longer safe for you.

I basically refuse to go to most of those states if I can help it. Florida? You couldn't pay me to set foot in that state. I feel they same about Texas and many others.

I want conservatism to thrive. It does have a place in a healthy political system. But, my friends, the conservatives are the moderate Dems now. I don't know what else to call the Republicans, other than fascists or cult members. It is a sickness that any person in their right mind should run as fast as they can from.

The truly upsetting part about this is that there are people that are desperate to leave those fascist states, that can't for a variety of reasons outside their control. I wish things were different. This is just insanity.

[–] ceeg@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only way the red states will change is by getting worse and worse. They will have no doctors, teachers, nurses, lawyers, or corporations that will purposefully live or do their work there if they can help it. If you are a woman, a person of color, a migrant, an LGBTQ person, a child, or anything other than an old white man, the red states are no longer safe for you.

ah so if you're poor, taking care of loved ones, or otherwise unable to move, then your life is acceptable collateral damage? accelerationism has victims.

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[–] Drusas@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Florida Republicans are working reeaally hard to kill their state's entire economy right now. Attacking Disney (the state's biggest employer) and undocumented immigrants (the backbone of the state's agricultural industry and a key part of the labor force for various others such as construction and hospitality), driving away teachers by taking away their right to actually teach, etc.

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[–] darthfabulous42069@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a very alarming sign. Polarization of that caliber means we're on a hard Stage 6 on the Ten Stages of Genocide, and everything that follows it is... bad. Very, very bad. You do not want to see what happens at Stage 7 and beyond.

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[–] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Conservative terrorism is out control. It breaks out specifically across racial and socioeconomic lines.

Moderates and liberals are trying to protect themselves, while conservatives are hell-bent on tearing everyone down.

My hope is that these are the death throes of the Republican party. A loud gasp for air before the party croaks and shatters.

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blue states don't give an egg.

Red states "where you from, and why are you here? Don't take my water".

At least that was last time I visited the Midwest in my own vehicle (but they can't spot rentals very well, treated me like their kin when I didn't have California plates and hid my accent as much as possible)

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[–] kava@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It makes me sad that leftists are leaving Florida. They are turning a purple state into a red one. Every sane person that leaves Florida means the ratio gets tilted more and more into the looneys.

People need to stay in red states. Voting blue in Colorado isn't going to do anything

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[–] lynny@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It would be cool if democrats focused more on working class people, rather than just saying they do. That's literally all they need to do to win back millions of voters.

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[–] GiddyGap@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This is part of the GOP strategy.

Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri has openly acknowledged that the GOP strategy is to make it so miserable for Democrats in red and purple states that they will move to blue states. That would, in turn, cement Republican power in the White House, Senate and thereby the Supreme Court.

[–] TheyKeepOnRising@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This is only a viable strategy as long as the electoral college exists.

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[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It won't work for long, since they're making people so poor they can't afford to move.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For real. I live in Texas currently. If I could afford it, I would move tomorrow. This place is Hell, in every sense.

[–] mara@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Me too. I'm a clinical social worker here, and so many of my LGBTQ+ patients have been struggling with suicidal ideation with the politics here, especially with the most recent legislative session. I'm gonna stay here as long as possible and vote in every fucking election possible. Lately I've even been voting in the Republican primaries against the extremist candidates. It's so sad, because it wasn't this bad here when I was growing up in the 90s. We even had a Dem governor.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I wish democrats would make moving to places like Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming a priority

[–] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Who's going to give up their entire quality of life to be a small snowflake hoping to make an avalanche? For the politics, it's a very small contribution. But for the family, it's huge. You'd be losing job prospects, friends and family, activity availability, local politics, healthcare quality and access, and most importantly: being treated like a person if you aren't a right-wing cishet white male of means.

Almost no one's going to take that trade and they shouldn't.

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