The recent bus service from Texas to New York City and Washington DC that Governor Abbott initiated got me thinking. It sort of aligns with the idea of acceleration that is popular with some on the Dissident Right. The idea is to accelerate the crazy ideas that the Left favors in order to let reality crash the system sooner. The thought is that hitting bottom is the only way to convince the stupid that their beliefs are irrational.
I have mixed feelings about the accelerationist theory. Hitting bottom seems like a particularly dangerous place to be. I’m not sure some of these “bottom” conditions can be reversed. For instance, if Biden allows another fifty million illegal aliens to invade the country, I’m not sure it will be possible to repair that kind of damage short of some horrific violence that might finish the country off altogether.
But the example of the bus rides points to a different kind of acceleration. If the damage can be restricted to blue states, then maybe the actions will serve a purpose. Suppose the bus rides were extended to other groups that aren’t wanted in the Red States. For instance, imagine if the homeless could be persuaded to move to California. And the same could extend to prison inmates. Their sentences could be commuted if they agreed to leave the red states permanently. After all New York and California have been pioneering the concept of emptying the prisons and eliminating criminal convictions. It only makes sense to send career criminals where their talents can be put to their best effect.
I haven’t gone through all the accelerationist scenarios that could be handled this way but I’m sure it could be quite interesting to play this thought experiment. Maybe there could even be some kind of negotiations to get certain corporations to move out of state. Or more realistically, provide a carrot and stick approach for companies (and universities) based on whether they engage in anti-social behavior like white guilt struggle sessions and EDI propaganda. Hefty fines for each infraction would quickly make these companies weigh whether their policies were more important than relocating. As a practical example, Ron DeSantis has recently tweaked Disney by eliminating their self-governing status in Florida. It will be interesting to see if further “lessons” influence Disney’s propensity for condemning conservative laws and programs in Florida. Changing their behavior would be a major victory.
Obviously, my poor efforts are woefully insufficient to evaluate just how many similar ideas could be identified. Governors and legislatures are the right ones to do it. Imagine if Washington DC could be inundated with a million illegal aliens and a hundred thousand freed felons. Joe Biden would probably have to roll out the razor wire and call back the National Guard to keep his friends from defecating on his lawn, stealing the catalytic converter on his bomb proof limousine and spray painting, “Let’s Go Brandon” on the side of the West Wing.
Well anyway, that’s what I thought about this evening. You see, I can be constructive if I try. It doesn’t always have to be doom and gloom. We can have fun once in a while too.
Let them run through the streets shouting Sanctuaire! Sanctuaire!
(or perhaps Santuario! Santuario! would be more fitting)
There are usually people running through the streets there. But mostly they’re running with stolen goods in their hands.
I would ship them to every sanctuary city in the country. Why stop with NY & DC
I would exclude states that have a Republican governor and two Republican senators. So for instance I would leave out St. Louis and Kansas City even if they are sanctuary cities. Although I think their legislatures should ban the proclaiming of sanctuary status and provide criminal penalties for town councils that do.