Should Roe (1973) and Casey (1992) be completely overturned in 2022, what we will experience this summer is a massive migration. As an example, over 330,000 have moved to Florida this past year. Most of this stemmed from COVID policies that crippled other states economically and socially. Almost nine million people in the U.S. changed their address during the last two years. COVID regulations strangled large portions of the country and revealed much of the internal dynamics between politicians and power. Many realized that when Nero has power, power he doth not wish to give way. Control is a technique of tyrants. Nevertheless, what they minimized was the capacity of people to see trends and follow trends to their ultimate telos.
And people, who began March of 2020 enamored by the Fauci, now gladly join the chorus of Fauci-deniers. Don’t overestimate the power of deception (Numbers 32:23). Things do come to a halt eventually and the kids will start asking about whether the pope speaks ex-cathedra or whether that chair is fake after all. If COVID measures woke people out of slumber like a storm in the middle of the sea, Roe and Casey will also do a thing more powerful yet. We should, in fact, expect a massive migration among those who–unlike Keller and Moore–see culture wars as a real thing, and not a figment of our imagination. People are flocking to towns where there is a massive-scale Jesus-is-Lord culture. I am not speaking of the generic Jesus-is-Lord culture, I am speaking of those towns where communities arise, dine, and wine in the Jesus-is-Lord culture. They take their culture wars with an extra shot of espresso.
We should expect cultures to be fairly defined in the next coming years. We should expect California to return to some level of 1929-culture; perhaps not of immediate economic turmoil, but certainly, cultural turmoil as the seeds of cultural decency will leave in mass and find refuge in cultural havens for spiritual refugees. I am somewhat hopeful that a few towns there will remain virtuous enough to reject the mandates from Fauci’s right hand and fight Newsom like a Puritan colony. If that happens, I will gladly send some monies to their accounts.
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