Sipsey Street Irregulars: Voting with their feet.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Voting with their feet.

"Let's get outta this here 'socialist paradise,' Ma, while the gettin' is good."

The Reverse-Joads of California

But it is ironic that many of the intended beneficiaries of California's liberal government are running for the state line—and that progressive policies appear to be what's driving them away.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Since when did "Go WEST young man" become "Go LEFT young man" ???

The West coast has deteriorated into the Left coast!

III; March 4, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Anonymous said...: That picture reminds me of my dad when he was 11yrs old. Original okie family with 6 kids, Model T pickup loaded with family and enough shit to start over. Went to Californi in '31 to find that land of noney. Made it to Corning Calif after 5 months. Struggled their entire life.
I left Cal 10 yrs ago after walking into local City Hall to register a complaint against local "Code Enforcement" team, only to be surrounded by cops WITH shotguns in lobby. Amongst hundreds of other incidents over 30 yrs. I'll never step foot in that stinking state again. State and Sacramento local Gov and LEO's out of control big time. Calif is the plumb bob of police state.; March 4, 2013 at 10:47 AM
SWIFT said...: The commies fleeing California are taking the same progressive policies with them, that cause California to be a socialist shit hole. Indeed, there are so many leaving, they are changing the demographics of formerly conservative states. That is bad news!; March 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Gunny G said...: Beware Red States, those fleeing Mexifornia, NY, and other Blue States bring that liberal virus with them wherever they go.; March 4, 2013 at 9:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Glad I got out while the gettin' was good - in 1984. Been watching my family hang on in spite of the disastrous economic failures of cities and counties ever since. Swift is right about the bailouts bringing their socialist crap with them. Phoenix is a prime example. At least most of the legislature will be able to resist the attempts by Dems to disarm THIS state, as well. For a few years at least (long enough for the civil war to start before that happens). I miss the beauty of the coast, but prefer the desert and mountains to the faux society that's ruined my original home.; March 5, 2013 at 2:08 AM
Anonymous said...: They're ruining Montana.

BoarHawg; March 5, 2013 at 7:22 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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