https://www.wsj.com/graphics/red-economy-blue-economy/?fbclid=IwAR3uH_V8xPOu9SCZNa4dIzDdB-37G2VLhxcWviEmiYxXQKq_ZwkHKC_gYHc
This post is a reply I banged out on FB to this piece.
Here is the tragedy.
The Red states as we know are poorer less educated, and prey to superstitions, and racial tribal fears. They cling to the last of what the industrial era can provide by way of employment. On the face of it they're the past. They're the mid-20th century.
The Blue States are cosmopolitan educated progressive have embraced the new technologies, and it's economy. They are diverse, and comfortable with it. In short they are the future.
For now the Reds' can hold power via the electoral college gerrymandering, and voter suppression.
These are rear guard actions of a war they are losing.
In time they will fade as the new demographics overwhelm all of these last barriers to the future.
It is not a question if the two can be re-united.
They can't.
It would be like keeping the customs of pre-industrial culture in a highly industrial one,...it didn't happen. It will not happen this time either. As I say it is tragic in every aspect. In 30 years or sooner they will not functionally exist.
Just as gas lighting gave way to electrics, and horse wagons to trucks.
As illiteracy gave way to public schools, and superstitions gave in to the Enlightenment.
The Culture,…the whole culture will move on.
"We are educated, they are ignorant; we are progressive and enlightened, they are tribal and superstitious; we are the future; they and their backward customs and life ways will eventually cease to exist, just because we want them to." With attitudes like this, what could possibly go wrong? Consider how well it worked out last time.
ReplyDeleteBack in Civil Car times, one of those two parties was affiliated with the Stars and Bars. Do you happen to recall which one it was?
I get the impression that the SJW - er, I meant the WSJ - are telling themselves and the upper managerial class they represent the kinds of stories they want to hear.
The illiterate superstitious, and tribal bigots will always be there.
ReplyDeleteI inferred they'd be there as a non-functional cultural entity.
My point was they'll be there, but out of power.
The system will never let them out of their caves again.
Bad for business that.
Mind you this doesn't mean anything so storage as social or economic justice. Just that the rubes will be back in their opioid dens, and or living in abandoned malls.
As for us darkies.
Some as now will be in the system. Even upper management.
However most of us like the rubes will be culturally extinct.