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like your sibling poster, you didn't actually engage with the point I made repeatedly above, which is the mass-migration-to-achieve-political-change part. do you believe that this concept is generally justifiable and everyone should be encouraging it everywhere to further their own goals of political change? or just this one specific instance?

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1. I'm not sure my original comment was "encouraging mass migration"

2. People are free to move anywhere they like for any reason

3. If people from Connecticut can move here and change our politics, I see no problem with others moving here to change it back.

4. If corrupt politicians can rig the game in their favor, getting more legitimate voters might be the only ethical way to counteract such brazen attacks on our republic

5. This isn't the "gotcha" you think it is

> 1. I'm not sure my original comment was "encouraging mass migration"

You literally said "We do need people to come to texas to flip it blue."

I am not trying to "score points" or make "gotchas" here, I am genuinely engaging in honest discourse. I am unable to see how the sentence "We do need people to come to texas to flip it blue." can be interpreted as anything but literally "encouraging mass migration." as far as I can tell, Democrat voters encouraging mass migration of other Democrat voters to specific states that meet specific criteria is the only instance of this pattern of behavior that exists in the country right now, and I'm interested in digging deeper and trying to figure out why this is, where the ideological difference comes from. I don't think many people acknowledge that this is a core ideological distinction at play here, because it's difficult to imagine oneself as having the opposite worldview.

I gave several very specific examples of why people should NOT move to Texas.

And I don't agree that democrats are the only ones doing this. Visit some firearms\guns message boards if you need some examples of conservatives encouraging other conservatives to move to make sure those dang demonrats dont take our guns.

I would be very surprised if said message board posters were actively encouraging each other to move to California in order to sway gun rights laws there—let alone actually actively doing it in appreciable numbers.

> I would be very surprised if said message board posters were actively encouraging each other to move to California

It happens. It's pie in the sky type of dreaming but it happens. Other states are def more targeted

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