The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(11-30-2019, 03:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-27-2019, 10:45 AM)David Horn Wrote: The Red Rural Regions are shrinking and their economies are collapsing, for the most part at least.  Residents are now in a fully defensive crouch,, trying to preserve their lifestyles even as they wither away.  What you see here is fear and loathing.  The fear is understandable.  The loathing is part envy and part anger at being done wrong.  The harder we in Blue America push against these ideas, the stronger the adherents cling to them.  Here's a good article from the NY Times that covers a lot of it.

And don't think the GOP doesn't understand this very well.  Bill Barr is out there pitching the idea that secularism on the left is destroying the fabric of society -- essentially an anti-American act against Real America.  Never mind that the facts are on the other side.  Facts don't count these days, as you already know.

The secularism (Quasi Socialism) on the left  has been taking its tole and weakening the fabric of blue society.

The original communists and socialists were monks and cloistered nuns, so don't try to link the two.  It's a bad fit.  If you want to argue that secularism is destroying the fabric of society, and that's covered pretty well in the linked article above, then feel free to bring some evidence.  Right now, the most stable families are among the secular elite, of course they have the resources needed to make that happen.  In general, Blue areas of the country have much lower levels of teen births and single motherhood that's unplanned.  The most fragmented in all categories: the rural poor.