Rise Of Tribalism, Racism & Bigotry Most Associated With Which Turning & Why?

[Eric the Green]

(05-04-2019, 02:25 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 05:58 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Bigotry and Tribalism are part of the human condition and exist outside of the Turning System.

That being said having lived in the Rural Midwest, and the Urban Midwest as well as the suburban South PBR is wrong as usual.  I actually experenced the most racism in highly diverse areas where "multiculturalism" (really anti-culture) was the norm.  The more monolithic the culture of the area (black or white) the less the prevalence of racism.

I believe this is due to the fact that diversity + proximity = war.

I've been telling the blues to stop worrying about us/ focusing on us as the threat to their existence and start worrying about their own/focusing on their own because the greatest threat to them is their own so to speak.

I think there is some justification for blue to focus on our own, to an extent. Racism, for example, and trickle-down economics ideology, exists in Blue America; it is just not dominant there. Our own trickle-down economics in the past has caused schools in non-white neighborhoods to be inferior, which contributes to inequality in Blue America too. Pollution sometimes is just as bad as in Red America, because we have so much industry and so many cars. But policies that result from these ideologies have been more often imposed on Blue America, and Blue America would free itself from these policies to a large degree, and join the rest of the world in moving forward.

But Blue America has its own maladies to solve. Things are never totally either/or, by any means. We have to deal with high housing and other costs, which are the result of we being the desirable place to live. But are we doing enough to relieve homelessness and poverty that result from high prices and unequal distribution of wealth and education? And we depend for our prosperity on advanced high tech industries which have created a wealthy class which is still largely composed of white men, and which have on occasion neglected their social responsibility to their environment and their society. Blue America needs to move further left than it has been as a vassal of Red America. No doubt some blue states like California have had greater immigration of poor people from other lands, which has strained our education system and increased the poverty from which our states suffer. Many Latin and Asian Californians have become excellent contributing citizens, and this will lead to greater prosperity than xenophobic Red America could ever enjoy, but a period of transition occurs for which greater adjustments need to be made.

There is more marijuana use in Blue America, which has it good and bad results. Because we have freer lifestyles, we sometimes have to exercize more caution in regard to sex and drugs and other pleasure addictions, especially among youth. Blue Americans may have bigger egos because we aspire to fame and glamour and get rich quick more than Red America does. Broadway and Hollywood attract superficial ambition. Because we lack a sense of community, but are always on the move to greater and greater things, or so we think, Blue America often has more loneliness than Red America. Our sense of spirituality, virtue and higher values may suffer from our belief in science and tech as solution to all problems. But it is not Blue America that has suffered the most from addictive pain-relief pills, because there is less pain in Blue America to seek relief from than in Red America.