Re: thinking about leaving the us
I mean really, no one is taking those freedoms away. This idea that the dems are going to just steamroll conservative values or whatever is false. They haven't done anything significant since 2010. They couldn't even close Guantanamo even though that would haven't needed congress, just a few people like actually deciding to do it.
Even now the filibuster means that no dramatic policy is going to get through, because the dems in power actually just always default to playing nice. It's the Twitter-ified version of dems that make the dems look super radical. Even things that are pretty universally liked like expanded voter rights or limits on how much money corporations can pour into politics are dead on arrival even though they've got both chambers and the presidency; they could get it through, but to do that they'd have to fuck over the republicans, and even when they hold all the cards they can't get enough unity to decide to do that.
I guess maybe the deplatforming etc. is concerning, and I don't like it, but Congress and whatever isn't deplatforming. That's really all the twitter mob. Dems in politics are almost universally nice, in the bad way. it gets them elected but then they don't do much with it and nothing ever happens. Hand them a majority everywhere and they still don't fulfill their promises to their voters.
Conservatives have the supreme court and a lot of other lifetime judge appointments and an opponent who rolls over and shows their belly even when they hold all the cards. I honestly think that if democrats actually fulfilled the promises they make a lot of you "dems are evil" people would like them for it.
As things stand conservatives have a very strong foothold. If they capitalize on it instead of continuing to tie themselves to Trump they have a very good chance of sweeping the 2022 and 2024 elections, and flipping this thread around so that I'm considering leaving because I'm a disabled minority and as soon as it's conservatives all the way that's not a good thing to be anymore. But eh, same problem: disabled means no immigrating.
The Twitter mob is another story. I don't like the Twitter mob. But frankly both sides do all the stuff that the Twitter mobs do, using the same tactics. Most of the deplatforming and ugly stuff comes from social media.
I used to believe that the federal government should be more powerful. Then I watched the last 4 years. Now, I kind of wish that the states had all the power. That would solve all of this pretty quick and get us a collection of 50 countries with easy immigration. Democratss could go to Democratland Republicans to Republicanland. Then who makes better policy gets solved fast and we see who fails. But more to the point we could just all go avoid the other side and policy would happen and if you're a gay atheist you go to Seattle and be happy, and if you're a conservative Christian you go to somewhere in Florida and be happy. And if one side fails, then the fact that they fail changes minds and everyone flips without even having to argue the point. This isn't exactly a serious policy proposal because there's a lot of practicalities in there that make it infeasible, but: if I had my way that's how we'd solve this. I believe the Democrats would win in the sense that in the end everyone would want to go live in the Democratic places, but eh, maybe not. In any case if you could do it then at least no one would have to fear the president anymore.
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