{"id":76007,"date":"2020-12-04T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76007"},"modified":"2020-12-04T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:43:13","slug":"cautionary-tale-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76007","title":{"rendered":"Cautionary Tale, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dennis Prager notes that everything The Left touches, it destroys.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a conservative, in a well-run conservative state like the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Carolina, Idaho, Utah or most of Montana, Texas, Oklahoma or Indiana, be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these people fleeing the mess their own politics have made <em>do <\/em>screw up your politics.  You&#8217;ve seen it in rural New England, where Boston refugees pretty much zorched everything forty years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado?  Virginia?  Lost to refugees from California and DC over a decade ago.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arizona?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/election\/victoria-taft\/2020\/12\/01\/just-as-we-feared-californias-economic-refugees-ruined-arizona-in-the-2020-election-n1182173\">becoming mini-California<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>The<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/data\/how-washington-may-have-helped-flip-arizona-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u00a0Seattle Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the refugees from California, Washington, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Minnesota, Nevada, Florida, and Utah, in that order, fled to the state with Cactus League baseball, more conservative politics, the Grand Canyon, and the Red Rocks of Sedona. And then they approved legal pot, the state\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/arizonas-tax-disaster-refugees-from-blue-states-and-other-infuriating-explanations\/\" target=\"_blank\">highest tax increase<\/a>\u00a0ever, and put Democrats in the highest offices \u2013 the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/results.arizona.vote\/#\/featured\/18\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Senate and White House<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 to ensure their new home will be every bit as expensive and over-regulated as the one from which they fled. Toke up, \u2018Zonies!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re seeing this in Fargo and Grand Forks, as colonies of academics from all over the blue-o-sphere set up residence, and then start turning the area into everything they fled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch out, Hudson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager notes that everything The Left touches, it destroys. If you&#8217;re a conservative, in a well-run conservative state like the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Carolina, Idaho, Utah or most of Montana, Texas, Oklahoma or Indiana, be careful. All these people fleeing the mess their own politics have made do screw up your politics. You&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76008,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76007\/revisions\/76008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}