Being a Republican in New England is an awful fate.\u00a0 Well, no, a Republican in New England is typically just a Democrat who doesn\u2019t like high taxes.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t have a problem with the social justice or the anti-white racism, just the loss of savings.\u00a0 But for someone like me who is genuinely conservative, it\u2019s horrific.\u00a0 In every law and policy, you see misery and stupidity and what seems like the absolute worst governance imaginable.<\/p>\n
Now, some of my fellow New England conservatives (of various stripes) are always hoping against hope that their neighbors will come to their senses and vote in a Mitt Romney or some other squishy \u201cconservative\u201d and fix the taxes, stop wasting money on welfare and get crime under control.\u00a0 They say things like, \u201cIf we can just boost turnout of Republicans and Independents, we can fix these problems and show the Democrat voters that we\u2019re the sensible choice for fair governance.<\/p>\n
But these are just pipe dreams.\u00a0 Sure, if the state after a decade or two of Democrat control has managed to empty the treasury and destroyed the credit rating of their specific New England state government, then surely, they will elect a Republican governor to restore fiscal sanity and prevent complete exsanguination.\u00a0 But if the Republicans could read even the smallest lesson from history, they would see that this is just an emergency tactic.\u00a0 Sort of like a rupture disk that prevents a catastrophic failure but is never meant to permanently regulate the system.\u00a0 As soon as the emergency is over the powers that be will set to work pushing the system to the breaking point again.<\/p>\n
Now, my opinion about these things doesn\u2019t make me a very popular figure around Republican party circles.\u00a0 What they want to hear is that things can be fixed and we\u2019ll all live happily ever after.\u00a0 Which reads like a fairy tale to me.\u00a0 But the thing that gives me any hope at all is actually Michigan.\u00a0 There is a blue state that seems to be slowly slipping back into purple and maybe red status before our eyes.\u00a0 And maybe this is an evolution that worked its way through the death of one of the greatest American cities; Detroit.\u00a0 Detroit and by extension Michigan was a union heavy population.\u00a0 All the heavy industry, especially the auto industry played into the blue state model.\u00a0 But over the course of decades these industries have been victimized by the rust belt decline in middle America and with Detroit\u2019s shrinking population we seem to have reached the point where Republicans (at least MAGA Republicans) have a chance to get elected even to the US Senate.<\/p>\n
And maybe that\u2019s the only way blue states can be flipped.\u00a0 They have to rot away to such an extent that the progressives leave out of desperation and all that remains are poor people who can\u2019t escape.\u00a0 Something equivalent may be happening in California.\u00a0 But I think it will be decades before New England will reach anything like what California is experiencing.\u00a0 More promising in the Northeast is New York City and State.\u00a0 Here we see a case so extreme that even short-term changes may be enough to catastrophically destabilize the whole system.<\/p>\n
But here in New England we\u2019ll muddle along with just regular old progressive absurdity.\u00a0 We\u2019ll leave true insanity to the experts in Gotham and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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