Critically-thinking humans move out to better states leaving those who either don’t think critically or who can’t afford to leave. Less critical thinkers = more Republican votes and a more solid grip on power to make things worse.
They’re not out to attract critically-thinking people with these; they’re trying to wear down and drive out their perceived enemies. Any deplorable who thinks “yep, this is what I want” and who decides to move there because of it is just a bonus.
Edit: Because of the way the Senate is structured, regardless of population, each state gets two. So if, hypothetically, there’s a mass exodus from these removed states and population in better states explodes, they’ll still be able to hold the Senate hostage. In the House, the number of reps per state is determined by the census every 10 years giving them a big window to control both chambers of Congress with a minority of Americans on their side (House reps are elected every 2 years).
So, counter-intuitively, the best thing critically-thinking, rational people can do is move to these removed states and vote these ghouls out. Because if enough states devolve to removed status and drive out rational people, they’ll be able to either pass federal legislation making all states removeds or at the very least prevent any federal laws from being enacted that would stop them.
For your quality of life, healthcare, well being, education for your kids, access to healthy food, clean environment etc it is actually more rational to leave these states.
I agree it’s a big ask to stay let alone move there. But long term, the repercussions seem like they would be worse unless the people left there wise up in time.
It’s a commons dilemma, by moving out you’re prioritizing your short term self interest over the long term group interest. If you leave a conservative state for a liberal one for the immediate future your quality of life will be greatly improved, but if enough people do so in the long term everyone’s quality of life will be worse.
Critically-thinking humans move out to better states leaving those who either don’t think critically or who can’t afford to leave. Less critical thinkers = more Republican votes and a more solid grip on power to make things worse.
They’re not out to attract critically-thinking people with these; they’re trying to wear down and drive out their perceived enemies. Any deplorable who thinks “yep, this is what I want” and who decides to move there because of it is just a bonus.
Edit: Because of the way the Senate is structured, regardless of population, each state gets two. So if, hypothetically, there’s a mass exodus from these removed states and population in better states explodes, they’ll still be able to hold the Senate hostage. In the House, the number of reps per state is determined by the census every 10 years giving them a big window to control both chambers of Congress with a minority of Americans on their side (House reps are elected every 2 years).
So, counter-intuitively, the best thing critically-thinking, rational people can do is move to these removed states and vote these ghouls out. Because if enough states devolve to removed status and drive out rational people, they’ll be able to either pass federal legislation making all states removeds or at the very least prevent any federal laws from being enacted that would stop them.
For your quality of life, healthcare, well being, education for your kids, access to healthy food, clean environment etc it is actually more rational to leave these states.
I agree it’s a big ask to stay let alone move there. But long term, the repercussions seem like they would be worse unless the people left there wise up in time.
It’s a commons dilemma, by moving out you’re prioritizing your short term self interest over the long term group interest. If you leave a conservative state for a liberal one for the immediate future your quality of life will be greatly improved, but if enough people do so in the long term everyone’s quality of life will be worse.
Yep. Somewhere between prisoner’s dilemma and trolley problem. Lol
It’s really a variant of the tragedy of the commons, but yes it does have parallels with prisoners dilemma.