05-26-2016, 06:45 PM
1. They are well educated. A high level of formal education used to be a proxy for Republican voting (look at the electoral map of the 1950s for President); such is no longer so. The States that Eisenhower lost in either 1952 or 1956 included the least-educated States in America even if that meant that he would win Massachusetts and Minnesota. In 2012 Obama did not win any state that Eisenhower didn't win twice.
2. They strongly support formal education. If their kids are to stay in California and not be retail clerks or restaurant workers who must stay in the family McMansion because they cannot find work that can pay enough to live on, then they will need a high level of education.
3. They are very liberal on inter-ethnic sex. Many are in mixed-race marriages, even if the mix is 'only' white-and-Asian.
4. They are unlikely to be fervent Christians.
5. They like Big Government to keep the environment livable. They are environmentalists, and they see no reason for their environments to become moonscapes like former strip mines in Appalachia.
6. They do not see cheap labor so much as a boon as a blight, the antithesis of the GOP. Much like most screen actors in southern California they are more concerned with the common people being able to buy their product than with keeping costs down.
2. They strongly support formal education. If their kids are to stay in California and not be retail clerks or restaurant workers who must stay in the family McMansion because they cannot find work that can pay enough to live on, then they will need a high level of education.
3. They are very liberal on inter-ethnic sex. Many are in mixed-race marriages, even if the mix is 'only' white-and-Asian.
4. They are unlikely to be fervent Christians.
5. They like Big Government to keep the environment livable. They are environmentalists, and they see no reason for their environments to become moonscapes like former strip mines in Appalachia.
6. They do not see cheap labor so much as a boon as a blight, the antithesis of the GOP. Much like most screen actors in southern California they are more concerned with the common people being able to buy their product than with keeping costs down.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.