Ric Grenell proposes moving federal agencies out of DC: 'We can better represent Americans'
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No!!!!! The workers at the federal agencies are 95% democrats. That’s why DC and the bordering MD and VA counties are shitholes. We don’t want to move them in other states where they’ll turn any nice happy republican town into a democrat shithole.
I think the hope is that the bureaucrats refuse to move so the agencies have to be re-created by people native to the new area.
“Hope” isn’t good enough for me. If they fire them all and then move the agencies I’ll be ok with that, but if they just hope the workers quit because they don”t want to move, then I think it’s too risky. We don’t want to destroy middle America by moving communists there who will vote for the same people that destroyed the city they came from.
They could require that these agencies hire a certain percentage of each local community.
I like the idea of moving them physically far away from the entire NYC and northeastern population centers in general. The decades of coziness with the financial, media, and government power centers could use a shake up.
As a Virginia resident who works in the DC area, let me offer up some opinion on this matter.
Almost everyone who lives here works for the Federal government or in some way supports its infrastructure. It is an echo chamber of leftist ideas and the more people, who are required to move here because all of the federal work is here, the louder that echo becomes.
Breaking up the Federal agencies and moving them out of the tiny DC area (believe me, its tiny, we're stacked on top of stacks) will be a tremendous achievement. I know many who would rather quit their job than move to, say, Kansas, meaning that the Fed would have to hire locals in those areas.
In addition, it would help Virginia and Maryland politically as currently all the voting force in concentrated in this tiny area. So even if the the Democrat federal workers do move, it reduces the political power in Northern Virginia and allows the state to turn red again. Likewise for Maryland, which was also once a red state. Those Dems who move may one day turn an area blue, but it is also likely they'll be exposed to different ideas. Remember, it is a hardcore echo chamber here in DC right now.
I would agree with this sentiment. Austin is a cucked Democrat city but it is not nearly as bad as SF or Portland or Seattle because it's surrounded by Texas. That moderates them a bit.