• Jo Miran
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    How? How are they supposed to leave? I lived in southern Louisiana and I was desperately poor then. Nobody I knew could afford to leave.

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      Whether we like it or not, it’s going to take widespread class solidarity and a generation of grassroots activism to undo this shit. The politically active will never give a shit about the politically inactive until they’re outnumbered. It sucks that people just trying to make ends meet have to start becoming grassroots activists on top of their already demanding jobs and lives, but rights were never freely given to the disenfranchised. They were taken.

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      reminds me of an old sam kinison bit regarding people who live in deserts and then suffer droughts. but agreed… those most in need of relocation are least capable.

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      If liberals were serious about things, they’d be creating policies to enable mass migration of oppressed people out of fascist trifecta states.

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        There is no legal impediment to mass migration from state to state, only economic.

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          That is a legal impediment. Legally I can’t just go live in California. I need to be able to afford a home to legally live there, or else I go to jail for “illegal camping” or “squatting”. I can’t just move my trailer there either without owning land, that’s trespassing and vandalism etc.

          Those are laws which keep me trapped in Iowa.

          If liberals actually cared they’d implement public housing for refugees from fascism.