| >In many cases they've turned those cities even more progressive in the process Be careful what you wish for, I remember a saying from when I lived in Vermont: "They moved here because they like it better than Connecticut, now they're trying to turn Vermont into Connecticut." Don't blame that attitude on the right - they'd just call them Carpetbaggers. This is the kind of thing our non-democrat left would say (Even then-mayor Sanders, but I can't find the youtube clip of it right now because I don't want to listen to a bunch of hours-long interviews). Unless the only thing important to you is turning the state from red to blue, all this does is poison local politics. >"Bay Area conveyor belt" is perhaps the best thing that could happen for progressive politics, as many people newly arrived in the Bay Area come from very conservative regions, they often pick up more liberal values in the area If I wanted the left to continue shooting themselves in the foot, I would be championing this too. You're describing the same process as when kids from a strongly-conservative upbringing come to UVM and swing left. They are inevitability full of terrible ideas, naïve idealism and need years to mellow out into anything resembling a tenable political perspective. They're not necessarily dummies, but their ideas haven't been shaped by debate or tested against reality. |