The gradual but rapidly accelerating collapse of civilization has added urgency to the longstanding dissident debate over where to run when SHTF. Each day awakens more normies to the fact that they cannot coexist with Death Cultists who are busily imposing their inhuman ritual laws on the rest of us.
What had been more or less idle speculation has quickly gone from theory to practice under the interminable Covidian tyranny. Former stalwarts once unwilling to abandon their grandfathers’ graves now find their hands forced by despotic employers intent on revoking their workers’ bodily integrity. Mandate compliance has become a key consideration among those seeking to escape government-enforced corporate slavery.
But which locale is the ideal dissident homeland? Texas? The Florida panhandle? Tennessee? Northern Idaho? The answer is still up in the air, and only time will tell.
Yesterday I joined leading Hispanic author Jon Del Arroz to discuss his potential relocation plans, as well as the usual pop culture topics–including my brand new mech thriller novel.
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Hopefully, several dissident areas will work together, while maintaining their area-specific traditions.
I hope the Del Arroz family escapes and enjoys Nashville. It’s not Texas, but it at least it’s Southern. I have only been through Tennessee a couple of times, but I do remember the mountains. It’s a shame to leave the graves of family behind, but our duty of care to the living is greater than that of filial piety to the dead.
For anyone considering Texas, come on, but avoid the big cities. If you can’t avoid them completely, try settle on their edges. Y’all don’t even need to learn to ride a horse first! Boots and hats are optional, too, though in some places, a pickup truck is still pretty well mandatory. (My wife and I drove 300 miles to Decatur the other day for a family thing, and passed one little high school where almost every vehicle in the parking lot was a truck.) There is no state mask or jab mandate, and many places have just about gone back to normal.
But can Texas enforce its winterization policies for power plants? If not, then you’ll become a refugee camp for Republicans in more ways than one.
I am a bit nervous about that, honestly.
The invasion by illegal immigrants of the Rio Grande Valley is also a problem.
These problems are deeper than our politics, which is why any escape is not necessarily from a bad place to a good one, but from a bad place to one where folks might have space and time to begin to be good again, by God’s grace.
As a helpless Millennial from further east, this is my advice.
1. Learn Spanish. America is already doomed, but you can at least make peace with and evangelize the kindest of the invaders before your bishop screws it up.
2. Tell your neighbors to go easy on their thermostats. I like to assume an accuracy of ± 2°F when the manufacturer won’t tell, so a setting of 68° guarantees a warmth of 66°, and a setting of 70° guarantees a warmth of 68°. You can also close your drapes to manage drafty windows.
And even if you’re asthmatic, I recommend low-impedance return duct filters rated something like MERV 5 or MPR 300. Your air handler will thank you.
South Carolina Charleston area is a good choice. The only mask nonsense lately is at the North Charleston Colleseum and even there you put a mask on to get through the door and everyone takes them off once inside. Parish options are excellent. There’s the cathedral that is ordinary form but reverent with traditional chant and fine music. If you want Latin EF mass, there’s Stella Maris on Sullivan’s Island. And at St Mary of the Annunciation there’s Anglican rite.
My current working assumption is that the Death Cult will hit the first wave of dissident migration hard with draconian laws, targeted immivasion, and protests.
It might be a good idea to wait until the enemy’s distracted and quietly head for Site B.
I’m in Alexandria, Virginia. NoVA is pozzed as hell (although there is a strong Catholic presence with a lot of traditional priests and masses) but I went down to Lynchburg and Amherst over the weekend and was stunned by the Christian culture. Crosses and churches everywhere, no gay flags or BLM bullshit. Only problem is that it’s hard to find affordable healthy food (which NoVA has no shortage of, fortunately.)
At the end of the day, Christians are called to gird their loins, bear witness to the Gospel and evangelize the world. While sometimes a strategic retreat to safer pastures makes sense depending on the nature and immediacy of the threat, at some point we’ll have to face the enemy head on in the lion’s den as the great apostles and martyrs did.
Regardless if you stay put or make a move, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to find likeminded Christians in your area and network with them. If nothing else, then just for the reassurance that we’re not alone in this fight.