10-05-2018, 05:12 AM
(10-04-2018, 06:48 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-04-2018, 02:41 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump's new favorite word. He learned it while negotiating with Mexico!
I think you guys really need to start paying attention to what the blues do, what blues say about other people, how blues act, what blues seem to believe and seem to support or seem willing to support and so forth. BTW, your fellow blue looks pretty loco and seems pretty loco to me. But then again, what do I know about blues, I've only been posting with them and tangling with them for about 15 years and observing them politically and watching/ directly experiencing their favored methods are being put to use for political gain for almost 30 years. Dude, what would I have to do to wipe that smirk off his face. Would I have to get rough with him or just show him signs (the eyes and the look and the obvious demeanor) of a man who ain't there to take shot from some liberal pup, who ain't there for shits and giggles, who ain't there for fun and ain't there to play childish games with adult age liberals, who ain't there to please uppity liberal and liberal cheerleaders.
"Blue" America is far more diverse than "Red" America in ethnicity, religion, and culture. It is also far more creative. Do we "Blues" have some crazy people among us? Sure.
Do we have some rogues and outright crooks? Sure.
I look at where the biggest growth sector for the American economy is, and that sector is intellectual property. Some of America's biggest exporters are not really manufacturing companies -- Disney, Warner Brothers, CBS/Paramount/Viacom, NBC-Comcast-Universal, FoX' entertainment division, and the American subsidiary of Sony/Columbia. So let us say that Warner makes a hugely-successful movie for an American audience... if it is successful in Baltimore, it is probably also successful in Bangalore. Today Warner needs not even manufacture a film reel or a compact disc for supplying the movie to a movie in either Berlin, New Hampshire or Berlin, Germany; Warner can supply the movie electronically and collect proceeds much the same way. A big hit in Birmingham, Alabama as music is likely also a big hit in Birmingham, England.
This creativity is happening largely in "Blue" America. Sure, Detroit is a dump, largely because of the recession of the automobile industry as a share of the American economy. Well, think about it... you don't see many three-car garages, do you? Detroit is a big part of the music industry, reflecting that Detroit was the first large city with a large blue-collar, middle-income, black population that had such talent as the late Aretha Franklin or could attract Michael Jackson. Motown has its successors. Rural Michigan is about as Red politically as rural Texas...but Greater Detroit is as Blue as any large urban area.
The record industry typically has offices in Nashville -- but that is for the oxymoron "urban country". (The genre used to be known as "Country and western:", but it is more heavily associated with the South than the West. Call country music 'hick' if you wish, but know well that Nashville is no hick town. Nashville is going Blue. Austin is another center for the genre. Call Austin a hick town, and if you are in Texas you will be laughed at. Austin is very blue, too.
Book publishing has long had its nerve center in New York City. Do you want to be involved in creative writing even if all you do is index non-fiction books? You are likely headed to New York. Donald Trump is highly unpopular in New York.
"Hollywood" has been a by-word for the production of cinema since the Silent era. Greater Los Angeles is Blue. Special effects? Industrial Light and Magic is in Marin County, California. Blue. The most successful studio for animation is Pixar, having its center in Emeryville, California. That is near the excellent University of California and the excellent Stanford University. It is also close to Silicon Valley, as Pixar is one of the biggest users of sophisticated technology in America. The San Francisco Bay Area is a veritable paradise unless one has to pay rent there.
To be sure, rural America has good K-12 education, and`even for getting to college that matters greatly. It might be more efficient to pump money into K-12 education than into colleges and universities, but our economy depends upon making everything as expensive as possible for the consumer.
Acdaemia? All of the great state and public universities except perhaps Brigham Young University are in "Blue" areas. This applies to the Ivy League, well-renowned private colleges outside of New England, and the "Public Ivies". Sure, Indiana is Red -- but South Bend (a dump except for Notre Dame). West Lafayette (home of Purdue University) and Bloomington (home of the University of Indiana) are liberal havens. They are also very diverse places.
The creative talent of America finds its way to where the other creative people are, and that is not farm-and-ranch country in Nebraska. If one is artistically or technologically creative but lives in rural Nebraska, then he either does something brainy but not creative pr likely leaves Nebraska. K-12 education is very good in Nebraska, and it is what prepares people well for Silicon Valley. (Getting away from the fire-and-ice climates of Nebraska is another incentive).
Oh, by the way, Classic X'er -- your observations of human behavior are usually far off reality due to a focus upon physical strength and bluster. You do bring some perverse sense of humor. People are laughing at you, and not with you.
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.