Arguably, yes. If you vote leftism into power, then you are collectively responsible for the destruction and depredation that you ought to know follows leftist policies as night follows day. Here is just one example among hundreds of recent examples of what is happening on the mean streets of NYC. The video is graphic, depicting as it does an elderly black lady being beaten by a black thug with her own cane. Shocking? Not to anyone who has been paying attention to the Democrat-driven destruction of once-great American cities.
No doubt there are some decent people in NYC. My advice to them is to 'git' while the 'gittin's' good. A vote with the feet is also a vote with the wallet. An excellent way to defund the Left.
Of course, some cannot leave for various reasons. Must they shoulder any of the blame? Yes, if they didn't do their bit in opposing the destructive Dems.
As for the leftists who are leaving, but with their leftist views intact, they ought to wallow in the shit they shat. You and your deleterious garbage are not wanted where the morally straight and mentally awake flourish. You may earn more than the proverbial cold shoulder.
UPDATE (9/9).
1) Another woke joke of a crap hole is Portland, Oregon where rampant crime has driven Nike out. Go woke, go broke.
2) Another reason for the rotting of the Big Apple is the presence there of so many useful idiots. One such is NYC Assemblyman Ron Kim who on Cavuto's show on Fox this morning uncorked the asinine canard that "no person is illegal." Kim didn't come across as stupid, but surely he must know, first, that no one ever said that any person is illegal, and second, that an illegal alien is so-called because of the person's illegal action. I would be very surprised if Kim lacks the mental equipment to distinguish between agent and action, which in plain English is the distinction between the doer of a deed and the deed done. Since Kim is not inherently stupid, what we have here is another example of willful self-enstupidation which has the effect of promoting social collapse even if Kim does not himself intend to promote social collapse. What makes him a useful idiot is the fact that he is being used by evil people who do intend the destruction of our republic.
3) Here is a mad NYC mommy who has had enough and is not afraid to tell leftist hate-America swine what she thinks of them. Civility meets a limit when your civil space is allowed to be invaded by the very people charged with its protection.
4) Powerline: "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott came out swinging on Friday. Abbott, who has rightly been busing thousands of illegals to U.S. sanctuary cities such as New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, vowed to send even more migrants to Washington, D.C.
He wrote: “We will send Biden the same swift justice. And, we will add even more buses of migrants to Washington, D.C.”
UPDATE (9/10)
5) Let New York City Die. "So, let New York die. Let Chicago die. New Jersey, Massachusetts, everywhere these sanctuary leftists rule and are currently choking on what they’ve supported imposing on others, let them collapse. And enjoy the view as it happens."
I don't agree with the Schadenfreude of the last line, but the only way leftist fools will learn is by experiencing in their own lives and at their own bodies the consequences of their actions. Probably the best form of resistance is by bussing all illegal aliens to so-called 'sanctuary' jurisdictions, whether cities or states, so that leftists can be brought to understand the consequences of their deliberate self-enstupidation.
6) The RCC needs to be condemned as well. In its current 'woke' form with Bergoglio the Termite at its head it is in dire need of defunding. Michelle Malkin:
Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras may be the most recognizable name behind the caravans, but global Catholic elites play a central role in the coordination of this transnational human smuggling racket. Trump-bashing, American sovereignty-trashing Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter's Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover "27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations" for "housing, food and basic necessities," as well as "migrant" assistance programs "run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas," according to the Catholic News Service.
UPDATE 9/12
7) Pope Francis to urge resignation of Bishop Strickland. Figures. Defund the RCC! Send the cadre of termites into the desert for a long, long season of Besinnung. When the Archdiocese of Tucson sent us a contribution form, I sent it to the shredder. I should have written them back a nasty letter. Of course, many of the Protestant denominations are even worse.
8) Corruption everywhere: FDA Gone Rogue.
It is impossible to read Michelle Malkin’s article, which exposes the “deliberately orchestrated, relentlessly executed, slow-motion criminal invasion” of our nation by the hierarchy and various religious orders of the Catholic Church, without an upsurge of righteous anger. The people involved in this subversion of our national sovereignty, comity, and traditions, whatever their motivations, and these extend from the ideological leftist haters of the United States, as with Bergoglio and miserable ilk, both in Rome and throughout South America, to ostensibly well-meaning religious and lay persons, all swimming in the modernist theological heresies of presentism and subjectivism. While the former, allied with the Global Left, know exactly what they are about, the turning of the Church toward heresy and into an instrument of the New World Order, the latter blithely go about building the Kingdom on Earth, awash in the certainty of their merit. Together, they work to undermine what remains of the cohesion and institutions of the only nation that ensures the continued existence of Christian civilization. At the root of all this is the Modernist project to uproot Catholic thought and practice from its classical, ancient and Scholastic, foundations, which whatever their defects on this or that metaphysical question, tied faith to rational inquiry and discourse and the meticulous use of language. The intellectual rot is so deep and very extensive that those who speak of a restoration appear to be caught up in a world of dreams.
Posted by: Vito B. Caiati | Monday, September 11, 2023 at 05:32 AM
A brief addition: I forgot to include another group in this immigration scheme of the Church: the money guys, that is, the bishops and administrators, faced with increasingly empty pews, who hope to fill them with at least some of the illegals and who depend on government funding (over 60 percent) for Catholic Charities; thus, they obediently follow the Demo Party line on immigration, race, and other contentious issues. On this, see, the City Journal article of Brian C. Anderson, “How Catholic Charities Lost Its Soul” (https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-catholic-charities-lost-its-soul).
Posted by: Vito B. Caiati | Monday, September 11, 2023 at 06:44 AM
Vito,
We of course agree. Thanks for the link. A few days ago we received a request for a monetary contribution from the Archdiocese of Tucson. Into the shredder it went. I should have sent the form back to them with some choice words.
Posted by: BV | Monday, September 11, 2023 at 08:14 AM
Malkin's article is surprising to me-a non Catholic. I had always heard it was or is the Jews behind everything whether true or not. The RCC does indeed need defunding and reforming if that's possible. Rome was sacked on 6 May 1527 by Protestants AND Catholics who had become disgusted by Pope Clement-I believe. The Church survived and thrived after that so maybe a good 'sacking' 21st century style would do it good.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 06:45 AM
Mr. Bill
Correction, maybe, I do hope I wrote Protestant and not Presbyterian to go along with Catholic. Wouldn't want John Knox to spin in the grave.
WW
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 09:11 AM