Sounds like New York offered him more money... but never let a good opportunity to blame a law or two that doesn't even affect you go to waste ...
TOP, the ideological divide in this nation is not a make believe issue.
I'm not sure how anti-LGBT laws wouldn't affect a gay man,
nor can I understand how anybody, even a Tulane grad, wouldn't rather live in New York than Louisiana.
I live in beautiful Boston, not mudhole Louisiana, but even I'd live in Manhattan if I could afford it.
Neither of those things address the big issue, however.
They're just distractions.
We're not talking about fringe groups.
Huge factions of Americans have core values,
sincere and close to their hearts,
that are absolutely
repugnant to other huge factions of equally sincere Americans.
At this level of polarization, mutual tolerance is impossible, and attempts at it are lethally dangerous.
People NEED to move away from people that they find repugnant,
and they can't share the same government, either.
Right now, America isn't even considering partitioning.
We're apparently going to stay together until we all kill one another.
Then some other people can come here and enjoy this bountiful continent
without any angry Americans left to spoil the experience.
Good for them, I say.
If we're going to live like this, with this much tension,
without even trying to separate incompatible people,
not just by location but by government as well,
than our demise as a society will be well deserved and for the best from a global perspective.
It's my honest belief that people who live in conservative areas actually believe that they're some huge majority
and liberals are a maniacal fringe group. Many need to visit the big, urban cultural centers more often to understand
that there are just as many of us as there are of you.
There are too many of us for you to get your way,
and similarly, there seem to be too many of you for us to get our way.
If America remains intact, NOBODY will ever be content.
If we partition, at least we may have a small chance.
Failing to recognize our many and massive irreconcilable differences
will bring us all down together, and we'll more than deserve it.
