The conservative mind has become diseased

At some point we have to actually stop covering for terrible Republican policies and just let them hurt their own voters. I don't want to see red states collapse, but if we continue to keep softening the blow of the punishment Republicans inflict on their own supporters, while still getting blamed for it at the cost of federal power, it just doesn't seem worthwhile. If we want to fight back, we've got to cut them off economically - stop visiting red states, stop buying from red states, move out of red states, etc. and then we need to put as much effort as humanely possible into filling our state houses with non-Republicans and enacting sweeping progressive state-level policies and interstate-compacts to minimize the damage that a Republican-controlled DC is clearly willing to do.

We've been pulling up red Americas bootstraps for them for decades and all they have done is get crazier and more dangerous - at some point it's time to tone down the bleeding hearts and circle the fucking wagons.

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