Here in the South, we have a saying: “Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut.” And so it is that even Leftists occasionally have a good idea. Okay, rarely. Most of their ideas are the intellectual equivalent of raw sewage. But not all of them. A few actually make sense, as illustrated by the current leftwing buzzword du jour: “decolonization.”
When I first heard that term a few months ago, I thought it was just another example of virtue-signaling, navel-gazing idiocy. But then I realized they have a point. It’s not nice to “colonize,” meaning to resettle in someone else’s territory, appropriating it for yourself while importing an alien world view and attempting to force it on your new neighbors.
Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about colonization in the past. What are we folks of European descent supposed to do, go back to the countries our ancestors left generations ago? There’s not enough room for us there, and they almost certainly don’t want us, anyway. As Americans, we have been corrupted by subversive ideas like liberty, equality, and individual rights.
That’s the way with all historical evils, from slavery to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, from the Holocaust to Castro’s enslavement of the Cuban people. As much as we might wish otherwise, we can’t go back and undo such horrors. We can only reject them moving forward. We can only try to be better people, creating a wiser, more just society.
In other words, while we can’t do anything about the actions of those who came before, we can refrain from repeating their mistakes. And that means, among other things, putting an end to the colonization that is going on right here, right now in the United States of America.
I refer, of course, to the ongoing migration from Blue states to Red, as people flee places like California, Oregon, New York, and Michigan for friendlier, saner climes: Texas, Utah, Idaho, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina.
What is driving them? Well, many simply seek freedom from authoritarianism—from confiscatory taxes, harsh COVID restrictions, failing schools, and cities ruled by armed mobs where the police cower in fear, not of the mob, but of their own leaders. These modern-day colonists, much like their ancestors who came over from the Old Country, are just hoping to find peace, prosperity, and a better life for themselves and their families.
Of course, as the Left has reminded us, none of that is any excuse for colonizing.
I have to wonder, too, if another force is at work here. The number of colonists is so vast, their migrations so seemingly coordinated with election cycles, that I sometimes suspect a guiding hand. It’s as if some entity is saying to them, “Look, there are already enough of us here in California (or New York, or wherever). We never have to worry about losing an election. Why don’t you go to Texas or Georgia and help us win elections there.”
(We know, by the way, that is precisely what happened in Georgia, in the months between the November 3 General Election and the January 5 Senate run-off. Leftwing groups actively recruited people to move to the state in order to vote for far-left candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock—who did, in fact, win.)
Either way, whether spontaneous or planned, the effects of colonization are the same. The Blue-state colonizers inundate Red America by the Lexus-load and immediately begin trying to impose their culture and values on the natives, who by and large are not receptive. We currently see this happening across the country, in all the aforementioned Red states.
If the colonists’ only goal is to cast off the chains of the restrictive societies they’re escaping, this makes no sense. Why flee the consequences of lunatic Leftism only to immediately start voting, once safely settled into your new home, for malevolent moral midgets advancing those same policies? Is this simply an extreme example of cognitive dissonance? Or is it pure insanity—doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result?
The second explanation—that the colonization is deliberate, and the Blue-state leftists seek not just to invade but to occupy—may seem far-fetched, but it actually makes a lot more sense. Who is telling them to do this, I couldn’t say. Perhaps it’s just the hive mind at work.
No matter. I really don’t care why it’s happening; I just want it to stop. Blue-staters, like refugees from any other oppressive regime, are welcome in Red states as long as they are willing to assimilate, to live and let live. Attempts to drastically change our way of life to fit their warped world view—their perverse notions of governance that have failed spectacularly wherever they’ve been tried—will be met with stiff resistance.
So my message to the Blue-state hordes, as a Red-state denizen, is this: If hegemony is your goal, stay away. For once, live up to your own alleged ideals. Stop trying to colonize us. Even if you succeed—and we’re determined that you won’t—things will not end well. You’ll just wind up floating in the same cesspool you once pulled yourself out of, only now with nowhere else to go.