Vis-a-vis Mr Yang's unoriginal idea of moving en masse to Georgia and the article from last month, I think, about the bears of Grafton, NH...
I have espoused for years the notion of a couple hundred thousand liberals moving to Montana or some such place and changing the state.
It's based on the Free State Project New Hampshire:
https://www.fsp.org/I think it was a couple years ago that I commented on the paucity of Libertarian Party and Green Party members occupying even state legislature seats
anywhere in the country, but that FSP members had landed more seats in the last decade (then) alone than the Libertarians and Greens combined in their entire histories.
It is a far more powerful model.
With the involvement of Misters Bloomberg, Gates, and Soros, though, I am pretty sure I am dreaming small.
How hard would it be for each of them to basically acquire sufficient land in each of several "red" states and plop down a university with a high tech firm or two affiliated for the purpose of luring workers to a new place, ripe for shaping?!
A city of 100-150,000 would spring up around them, if they did it right, allowing, among other things, laboratory schools for educational experimentation (which Bill should eat up) and so much more! Want to try alternative governance in a controlled experiment?! Different policing models? Housing models?
And in the process, changing those red states for purple, if not blue, forever.
It might also return hope to some of the residents and reverse the declining lifespans of their despairing citizenry.