It's a wildly privileged take to tell someone to move. Also, most blue states aren't true blue. For example, Illinois has 33 counties wanting to secede. It's a deeply complex issue and alienating people fighting for the good of all, especially if they're in red states, won't help.
I'm advocating boycotting red state products as dialogue in my opinion hasn't worked and won't work. Consequences have actions. Just my two cents. At some point people in red states need to take some responsibility. If boycotting KY whiskey hurts some who didn't vote for Trump, that's unfortunate
I get your red state anger, but I recognize that me being an Alabama liberal and relocating to Chicago didn’t do anything to cull the MAGA movement. I don’t know why moving to a blue state would garner your sympathy and not someone trapped bc they’re unable to afford the move, like so many I know.
It's not cruel. It's reality. Stop playing victim and maybe go out and volunteer and try to change things. My ire is directed at red states where the overwhelming majority supported a felon and con man. Sorry to those who didn't vote for him but that's the reality.
You are actively harming efforts to improve things and fight back. Disdain might feel good, but it prevents progress. If you can’t let it go, just get out of the way.
The true naïveté is thinking that being mean to people on the internet actually accomplishes anything in the fight against fascism. It’s confusing catharsis for activism.
It’s a demonstrated fact that we see all the time in political campaigns. Understanding this has helped me win actual political campaigns. Boycott who you like, but when you are talking down to people who are actually doing work on the ground to change things, you are in the way of positive change.
Not everyone in red states are voting with the lemmings. We’re already on our own. But until the lemmings see that the MAGA Party doesn’t give a damn about them, & that they are only throwing them scraps every now & then, nothing will change for us. We have to keep trying to show them the light.
Agree. One way they may see the light is to understand actions have consequences. Elect members of Congress who blindly support Trump and Canadians and even blue state folks won't buy TN and KY whiskey. I'll buy Irish whiskey. Words and cajoling aren't working. Time for plan B.
Kentucky produces Bourbon, Tennessee produces Whiskey. I don’t buy either. No words aren’t working, but when their welfare, food stamps and ACA are cut, that’s when they will see and start thinking, hopefully. Education in these states hasn’t been a priority.
Bless your heart! I’m actually a true blue Chicago democrat who relocated to the south last year due to my spouse’s job. BTW, caring about others doesn’t end at state lines.
The point is - red states are destroying our democracy and supporting an oligarchy. It's happening while cowardly GOP elected officials stand by and watch. People in red states voted these lemmings in. Canadians should purchase things from blue states but not red states who voted for this
By alienating the blue voters in the red states, with an attitude like this, then how to you expect to help mobilise them to action & help turn those states around? At the end of the day, you are all Americans & the bigger picture is to get your country back from the dictatorial oligarchy.
For the 100th time my ire and frustration was directed at red STATES. I'd politely suggest that blue voters in red states direct their energy and angst at the people they live near who have brought this nonsense upon us not complaining that someone from a blue state is criticizing "them"
It's tough! I just moved from a red state: Missouri. Majority of this state's population is found in two large blue, very Democratic cities, St. Louis and Kansas City. But, our votes are lost to the rural areas with significantly less population but equal votes due to our outdated electoral college.
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