The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(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 under stable.  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..... How many Americans like morons and how many are willing to support a bunch of morons these days?

Red society seems to be weakening much faster. It's now the scene of the drug abuse problem that once infected blue society. Its economy is stagnant, and red states have experienced a brain drain, a youth drain and even an elder drain for decades. Their pollution is growing, while blue states are cleaning up and getting energy efficient. The red states still hang onto enough population to keep their electoral vote advantage though.

Some red states like Texas and Georgia are doing pretty well and gaining electoral votes, because the problem with coastal blue states is not a weakening of fabric so much as a strengthening of its desirability to the point that they are unaffordable, and therefore more people are moving out. Until very recently though, CA was still adding almost as many residents as Texas, though not as much by percentage. And as Texas, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina have added more residents, they have been trending purple. It's true that homelessness is a rising problem in unaffordable blue states like CA, but it's a side issue that does not weaken the fabric. Heavy Latino immigration in CA does pose problems for such fields as education, but in most cases the immigrants are hard workers who do most of the work and add to blue society's fabric. In CA they come from all over the world. Meanwhile red society gets fewer immigrants and misses out on the stimulus that they bring. As they lose economic vitality, red states and counties fall back on racism and religious prejudice to find scapegoats for their decline. They are turning in on themselves and their white Christian culture, and tuning out on reality.

Which side is supporting the most obvious moron ever to occupy the White House? Which side is so moronic that they actually approve of this incredible lack of intelligence and morality on the part of their celebrity dear leader? Which side values entertainment and the appeal to passion and prejudice in a president or candidate far above such virtues as dedication to law, democracy, attention to needs and civic duty?