Election 2020

[David Horn]

(12-15-2020, 10:54 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: How large was Japanese culture compared to Red culture today at the time? Red culture is about 74 million strong today. Realistically, 300,000 deaths is less than a 1% of the total population. Blue culture is about 82 million strong today. 300,000 is less than a percent of the total population for size. It's pretty clear that Covid had a greater impact on Blue Culture than Red Culture and it still does today. In short, we have no reason to change our culture. Whatever bad that is said about us is largely untrue and repeated by people who don't have a clue about us. Like I said, you and I could be neighbors or business acquaintances or passer by's but I doubt that we'd ever be friends or give two shit less about each other.

I have hard time seeing where you get your numbers.  I might be easier to cite areas that are dominated by one faction (metros for Blue and more rural for Red), in which case you're wrong.  The reddest of Red, like the Dakotas, are ignoring COVID and paying the price for it ... big time.  Cities, as a whole, are doing pretty well --amazing since they are compact so avoiding ones neighbors and coworkers is nearly impossible.

CXer Wrote:The Japanese citizens were indoctrinated by years of Japanese government propaganda that portrayed American soldiers as brutal savages which is why so many of the jumped off cliffs vs surrendering and being taken alive by American soldiers.

Japan was a totally insular culture for centuries, and is still to some extent.  No one had to indoctrinate the imperial subjects. It was all culture, top to bottom.