I'm all for an LGBTQ "Underground Railroad"-esque method of getting us out of harm's way. What I'm against is the notion by another commenter that I should have to stay here and help the people who, for whatever reason, are so poor that they can't pack stuff in boxes and leave. The goalpost can't just move that much. If your life is in danger, you don't just stay put because you might not financially recover. That's bullshit. And no one should stick around, under consequence of death, to help me. What kind of person just folds their arms as days "I'm not leaving until someone else risks their life to help me."
Also, my initial comment was that nothing in the Bible belt is worth saving. As in putting in effort to try and change their minds or shitty attitudes. Someone replied with something about nukes. I never insinuated anything of the sort. Granted, the entirety of the Bible belt could be hit by tornadoes and the Country would only be out by a can of Skoal, a pack of Marlboro Reds, and the entirety of the incest category on Pornhub.
Almost every front yard in Tennessee looks like a landfill and in one city, the county was discussing starting a code enforcement program and several people threatened to attack the city council. One guy even mentioned using a tank do do it. You cannot even legislate these people to have a modicum of class. These people are trashy and they aim to stay that way. It's all they know or care to know.
I had a coworker bring up the border situation a week ago and I asked him, a guy who could to be "super religious" (his words, not mine) what Jesus would want him to do, and he said, and I quote, "Jesus would want me to help the national guard shoot the ones that are trying to get here illegally." He and our boss, who is Catholic, got into a very heated debate about that. Guns are their solution to everything here, including the LGBTQ.
For as bad as you've read that it is here in the news and online, it's actually worse.