The Big Conservative Move
After the election, I was extremely annoyed that my vote, living in through and through Blue state, didn't make any kind of difference in the election. Where as people from Ohio and Wisconsin actually get to pick a president. Then it dawned on me, maybe I should move to a swing state. Then it hit me like a pile of bricks, what about an organized movement of conservatives living in already blue states to swing states? In my state Romney got about 1.4mil votes. Imagine if just 10%, 140k, of those votes moved to Ohio? Obama won the Ohio by 103,519 votes. Needless to say, I think conservatives that are outnumbered in blue states need to think about spreading to the swing states.
I ran across something interesting tonight: excerpts from Ayn Rand's voluminous journals regarding the psychology of Dagny Taggart. This is dated 18 Apr 1946:
"Her error ... is over-optimism and over-confidence....
"Over-optimism -- in that she thinks men are better than they are, she doesn't really understand them and is generous about it.
"Over-confidence -- in that she thinks she can do more than an individual actually can. She thinks... she can make people do what she wants or needs, what is right, by the sheer force of her own talent; not by forcing them, of course... but by the sheer over-abundance of her own energy....
"The mistake? Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone...."
So, we (you and I, at least) have now come to this same realization ourselves: the time to persuade people has ended. The sides have been chosen and it's time to, as you say, stop trying to waken the dead.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/bf...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_...
Never clearer than this election, elections are like a mother who picks a yellow and an orange shirt and gives the child the choice between the two. Usually the kid is all excited about being given a choice. But who really made the choice? This election, many "kids" stood there looking at the two shirts and said, "I know I have more than just a yellow or orange shirt to wear. Where's my purple one, or the green one from the laundry basket?"
Look up "You’ve Got to Stop Voting – by Mark E. Smith." The same essay is found on a couple of sites.
Your comment about elections is a horrendous thought... Nothing pisses me off more than not being given a choice. :)
Really?
My state (Rhode Island) not only re-elected the most corrupt and clueless legislators and Congressmen, they voted OUT a few good state legislators and supplanted them with known looters.
I am done trying to counsel the suicidal and delusional. I am seeking Galt's Gulch.
They would love to have more members in their ranks! Google them and take a look!
Familiar with that area, I knew that New Hampshire was the absolute *worst* choice as it was surrounded by deep blue states.
Take a look at the map of the sad kabuki theatre farce of a non-election that played on the 6th and you'll see that New Hampshire is *gone*.
A portion of FSP, knowing that New Hampshire was a poor choice, broke off and became FSP Wyoming.
Wyoming went fairly solid against the Marxist.
I believe that they also just voted for state nullification of ObamugabeCare.
I am (was?) actually a member of the FSP. I moved there, participated in one election, moved away two months later.
I just don't like living back East. Good to hear about Wyoming, I could walk to there if I had to.
But honestly, it looks to me like Texas is going to be the first state to secede. I don't think I could stand living in that flat, barren wasteland but I'll cheer them on.
I go nuts without mountains around me.
Yes, I have heard of the hill country around... Austin/San Antonio I think? But I've only ever been through the panhandle.
Maybe after you guys secede you can start going up the Rio Grande and annexing it. If you go far enough up you'll get to God's Country and then I can move there.
Think of Odysseus and the Lotus. Rand is the Lotus. When someone says "I've gone Galt," what they really means is "the Lotus is delicious."