I really hate to say this but, if you have children and the ability to raise them outside of the US

[Hortensis]

54. NO ONE thinks we should accept that for anything. NO ONE!

End of THAT huge insult to our principles! Even ONE dead child is too many.

My message is: Ignorance is a HUGE weakness that enemies weaponize to smash their adversaries. It also leads people to make absolutely terrible personal decisions.

INSTILLING FEAR IS A MAJOR TACTIC TO SUPPRESS THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.

How does "Flee the county if you can!" encourage more people to vote Democratic in the next election? Or any of the similar messages, like "good luck" to that in response to a promise to stay and fight? It doesn't, of course. How many who believed it was hopeless would even bother to vote Democratic?

It gets worse: INTILLING IRRATIONAL FEAR IS A MAJOR AUTHORITARIAN GOTV TACTIC.

While vulnerable LWers are supposedly discouraged from voting by fear and despairing contempt for Democratic abilities, conservative and other authoritarian leaners increasingly long anxiously for an authoritarian strongman leader who'll promise to impose order and safety. That's the plan because it's proven many times over to work.

tRump's the #1 strongman available right now, of course. Who doubts his promise to put troops on our streets to impose "safety?" How many cluelessly feel comfortable that police state tactics would be suffered by "others" in inner cities (where they are needed) because there's actually no significant violence in their area?

How many already feel democracy and the protections of, you know, their civil rights! are sacrifices we should make to keep our children alive? We know many RWers are ready, some eager, to end them right now; after all, they say, what do they have now but a nation crumbling under liberal socialist depravity? (I saw several people yesterday insisting we're already slaves anyway.)

But that doesn't work on people too informed to run off their cliff.