Military threatened by Red States

[TinCup]

Perhaps it's time to move our military bases out of states like Texas, Georgia and Florida where state Governors and legislatures have passed laws that threaten the well being of our young women and men in uniform. Perhaps that would add the financial incentive to act responsibly

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Pull 'em all

See what it will do to their economies.

[Duppers]

11. Thank goodness Virginia is now truly blue.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Don't abandon a front line

The bases are assets in place.

[lagomorph777]

9. We'll need those bases in the upcoming civil war.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. It would give them a taste of what would happen if their secession fantasy were to come true.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. No matter where a base is, Hyde still applies.

[thucythucy]

6. But at least a woman can

leave the base and more easily get the health care she needs locally.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. If they have the money for it, if local laws don't require multiple appointments, if there's even

a clinic available, and so on. Hyde is a barrier and it should be ended.

[thucythucy]

13. All too true.

The Hyde amendment is another conservative travesty.

And I'd be willing to bet, without first doing a Google search, that Henry Hyde was another self-righteous hyprocrite whose personal life was in direct contrast to the "morality" he fought to foist on the rest of us.

[thucythucy]

5. I've thought about this for years.

So much of the red economy is dependent on DOD spending. And yet the same people so often decry any other federal spending, including disaster relief for blue states, as "welfare."

[onenote]

7. Attempting that would guarantee we lose the Senate election in Georgia

And it would strengthen the Republicans in the states you mention. You realize, of course, that states like Texas, Georgia, Florida have Democratic party members as elected officials at the state and local level. None of them would vote to harm their constituents, which it wouldn't be tried in the first place.

[thucythucy]

14. And so blue states are locked forever into funneling

billions of their constituents' tax dollars to prop up states, such as Texas and South Carolina, that continue to elect representatives determined to end democracy and screw us all out of a chance to live reasonably rational and healthy lives.

Just one more way, along with disproportionate representation of rural districts, the outsized power awarded to red states in the Senate, and the electoral college which always tilts Republican, that the majority of voters in this country have to defer to the wishes of a declining minority who would just as soon we all die and go to Hell. And who are now literally and deliberately and even gleefully prolonging a pandemic that has killed more Americans than any of our wars since 1865.

[sarisataka]

8. Would you list the states

That are willing to give up thousands of additional acres for the bases to replace those?

[Progressive Jones]

12. I've always seen the bases in Red States as a welfare program. nt