When I was first stationed in Colorado back in 1986, I occasionally saw bumper stickers that read, “Don’t Californicate Colorado”. Unfortunately, they did. Now, locust-like refugees from California are spreading to Texas and other states. Once there, they vote for the same stupid policies and politicians that they had in California. Whether it’s simple stupidity (unable to learn from mistakes) or evil, the result is the same. Let the locusts flip Texas and Republicans will find it almost impossible to win another presidential election.
The same phenomenon is happening on the East Coast as well, as New York and New Jersey residents flee to Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Those states are flipping like dominoes. Virginia is already gone.
Sometimes I think it must be deliberate policy of the Left to make the cities and states they control unlivable, so that the citizens move away and spread the infection to their new homes. It sounds crazy, but it certainly couldn’t be working any better if it was deliberate.
That is the third article I’ve read on the topic, starting with the start of the policy.
Weirdly perhaps, no one (that I’ve read) except me has remarked on the basic politics. As I put it in my initial comment on the subject, the news headline should have read:
“Dominant Business in Major Texas City Colluded With Government to Damage All Local Businesses, Carved Out Exemption for Themselves”
First, one of the California socialists that moved into my neighborhood has his house up for sale. He didn’t last long with a) trying to sale home services to neighbors like living in the neighborhood meant you could constantly solicit people who have no soliciting signs in their yards, and b) coming up with ways to spend our home owner and taxpayer dollars, like hiring him to put up Christmas decorations or building sidewalks over train tracks so residents outside the neighborhood could easily get into the neighborhood.
As for Austin, it is UT Austin that is infesting the city. Certainly the core of out cities are more democrat than republican, but they aren’t as stupid. A lot of money is coming into Austin to keep it weird, so that they can harass the conservative state government representatives (like the Travis County DA that arrested the Governor for exercising his constitutional right to veto).
For the article, I like the tweet within, because it is a perfect illustration of the socialist hypocrisy. Excessive regulations drive up the cost of homes, because few can afford to build a new home to the regulations and existing homes are grandfathered in. But homeless can build structures that wouldn’t meet the most sensible regulations (such as having a foundation or not being built against a load bearing structure not designed to carry the load of the homeless structure). In the interest of “helping the poor”, they create a dangerous situation for both the poor and others in the area. If you want to help the poor; make it easier to build affordable new homes.
Let the big cities secede and join California. Move the capitol to Big Bend. Keep Texas Texan!
When I was first stationed in Colorado back in 1986, I occasionally saw bumper stickers that read, “Don’t Californicate Colorado”. Unfortunately, they did. Now, locust-like refugees from California are spreading to Texas and other states. Once there, they vote for the same stupid policies and politicians that they had in California. Whether it’s simple stupidity (unable to learn from mistakes) or evil, the result is the same. Let the locusts flip Texas and Republicans will find it almost impossible to win another presidential election.
The same phenomenon is happening on the East Coast as well, as New York and New Jersey residents flee to Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Those states are flipping like dominoes. Virginia is already gone.
Sometimes I think it must be deliberate policy of the Left to make the cities and states they control unlivable, so that the citizens move away and spread the infection to their new homes. It sounds crazy, but it certainly couldn’t be working any better if it was deliberate.
That is the third article I’ve read on the topic, starting with the start of the policy.
Weirdly perhaps, no one (that I’ve read) except me has remarked on the basic politics. As I put it in my initial comment on the subject, the news headline should have read:
“Dominant Business in Major Texas City Colluded With Government to Damage All Local Businesses, Carved Out Exemption for Themselves”
First, one of the California socialists that moved into my neighborhood has his house up for sale. He didn’t last long with a) trying to sale home services to neighbors like living in the neighborhood meant you could constantly solicit people who have no soliciting signs in their yards, and b) coming up with ways to spend our home owner and taxpayer dollars, like hiring him to put up Christmas decorations or building sidewalks over train tracks so residents outside the neighborhood could easily get into the neighborhood.
As for Austin, it is UT Austin that is infesting the city. Certainly the core of out cities are more democrat than republican, but they aren’t as stupid. A lot of money is coming into Austin to keep it weird, so that they can harass the conservative state government representatives (like the Travis County DA that arrested the Governor for exercising his constitutional right to veto).
For the article, I like the tweet within, because it is a perfect illustration of the socialist hypocrisy. Excessive regulations drive up the cost of homes, because few can afford to build a new home to the regulations and existing homes are grandfathered in. But homeless can build structures that wouldn’t meet the most sensible regulations (such as having a foundation or not being built against a load bearing structure not designed to carry the load of the homeless structure). In the interest of “helping the poor”, they create a dangerous situation for both the poor and others in the area. If you want to help the poor; make it easier to build affordable new homes.
Let the big cities secede and join California. Move the capitol to Big Bend. Keep Texas Texan!