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Originally posted by flashguy:Why is it only Liberals are fleeing states like California and coming to Texas?

Because located in Texas are two pillars that the 'creative class' revere and celebrate: SXSW and Marfa
Tax policy is a major factor too, at least for those executive types who get to relish moving a company/office.

Can't tell you how many times I've heard a marketing exec, manager or, a company person, spout their drivel about being inspired, motivated, moved, or, hooked-up with at X, at one of those two places and attempting to implement whatever it was towards some new company theme or, initiative.

Right now, seeing from afar a major company who moved from CA to CO, the transplants who moved from CA are hating life in CO.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I wish Cali would succeed from the Union and ALL the Lefties who are fucking up formerly good States ALL moved there.

They are becoming very vocal here in MT and I fear they will soon ruin Montana as they did Colorado.

I think you mean secede from the Union. I don’t wish that. I wish we could just get several extended range human cannonball type cannons (anything over twelve miles range would be enough) and deport all libtards by launching them West into international waters. I know, sadly it doesn’t work that way.

Seriously though, if we don’t figure out a way to educate young Americans about what made this country great and counteract the libtard brainwashing that goes on in far too many of our schools and universities, it won’t be a question of if, it will be a question of when.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Right now, seeing from afar a major company who moved from CA to CO, the transplants who moved from CA are hating life in CO.

Do you know what it is about life in CO that these transplants are hating? Depending on where one lives in CA, I’d guess it might be cooler, more snow, and no beaches (at least no oceans), but are the people wildly different? I don’t know CO. Only time I’ve been was over thirty years ago to attend a girlfriend’s company party with her. Didn’t get out of Aurora too much over the week or so. All the folks I met seemed fine, if anything more polite and more conservative than the folks in CA. Of course, that is pretty much what I find anytime I manage to get out of CS.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
^^^ Californians really are more liberal across the board than Texans. At the same time, the more liberal areas in California are along the coast where there's more money and opportunities, so coastal Californians have a relatively easier time of finding work out of state and putting together the scratch to move.

Well what happens is to companies that work for all day up operations in low tax states as a dodge. That makes it very easy for their employees to just transfer out to the new locations.

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Originally posted by slosig:....
Seriously though, if we don’t figure out a way to educate young Americans about what made this country great and counteract the libtard brainwashing that goes on in far too many of our schools and universities, it won’t be a question of if, it will be a question of when.

A somewhat thread drift. A dominant theme for students and faculty in CA public education is "social justice-equity-diversity". In practice such means that all cultures, belief systems, philosophies in the world are equal to the founding American values and principles. It is an injustice to promote the American way of life.

And if any self-identified "minority" does not achieve the same as the "majority", such is due to majority prejudice and the sin needs to be rectified. (I taught college in CA for 20 years.)

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Originally posted by slosig:

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Originally posted by corsair:
Right now, seeing from afar a major company who moved from CA to CO, the transplants who moved from CA are hating life in CO.

Do you know what it is about life in CO that these transplants are hating?

The majority of these transplants came out of the Bay Area so, right off the bat, there's lamenting about weather. I get it, Bay Area weather is the envy of the world, zero humidity, Mediterranean mild, rain is seasonal, zero bugs, you can grow produce virtually year-round; geography helps too, so plenty of vistas. There's plenty of comments about Denver being a cow-town, atheistically ugly, culinarily empty, with a featureless geography; it's on the western edge of the Great Plains, what'd these people expect. These are people who've lived in a bubble and merely moved for job preservation not because they were looking forward to the change in scenery, idiot-snobs many of them.

Funniest response was hearing a guy compare Denver with Sacramento: same town, same distance to the ski areas, same pollution, just higher elevation.

None of these liberal initiatives pass gun control or flip states to blue would succeed if conservatives would get out and vote. I read somewhere that 60 million conservatives failed to vote during the last mid-term elections. If that number is accurate it's a disgrace especially since so many people throughout the history of this country has sacrificed so much so we all have the right to vote.

The problem exists that statists exist in all places. As the transplants move to free locations, they like to interact with other statists. They then believe that they need to influence and meddle with the lives of the freedom lovers. The freedom lovers generally want to live their lives and be left alone. The statists meddle enough to gain enough influence to change the lives of the freedom lovers. Statists live to wag their fingers in the faces of people who respect the Constitution. They love to create strawman arguments, and show what they deem to be superior intellect.

Freedom lovers are going to have to unite, or we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes that we have in other places. "Leave us be" no longer is an acceptable answer.

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Originally posted by jljones:
The problem exists that statists exist in all places. As the transplants move to free locations, they like to interact with other statists. They then believe that they need to influence and meddle with the lives of the freedom lovers. The freedom lovers generally want to live their lives and be left alone. The statists meddle enough to gain enough influence to change the lives of the freedom lovers. Statists live to wag their fingers in the faces of people who respect the Constitution. They love to create strawman arguments, and show what they deem to be superior intellect.

Freedom lovers are going to have to unite, or we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes that we have in other places. "Leave us be" no longer is an acceptable answer.

The problem with statists (socialists) is they promise freedom for the masses, and gain many followers. But they deliver freedom only for themselves, and oppression for the masses.