A Time to Choose

American Thinker ^ | 26 Mar, 2021 | S. Christopher Michaels

[MtnClimber]

Americans sit paralyzed, watching the fabric of a representative republic unravel before their eyes, ignoring this chain reaction while happily checking the bank account to see the latest stimulus check's arrival is but one example of national paralysis. Numerous examples have been written about or cried over since the last election. It didn’t start there, though.

In the spring of 2020, fivethirtyeight.com published an article about the urban-rural divide and the impact it might have on last November’s election. They posited that hypothetically deciding the election based on the urbanization index would garner 323 electoral votes for Biden and 215 for Trump. Bear in mind that Nathanial Rakich wrote this hypothetical projection almost seven months before the national election. While questionable outcomes from that debacle are still under investigation, the official electoral results were 306 for Biden and 232 for Trump.

Other organizations and media outlets have investigated the urban-rural divide in recent years. The D.C.-based think tank, Niskanen Center published an article in 2019 lamenting “the density divide” based on a study by the same name conducted by researcher-writer Will Wilkinson. For the record, Wilkinson was fired from the Niskanen Center in January of this year for incendiary tweets about Vice President Mike Pence.

Wilkinson’s findings in The Density Divide present numerous expected tropes as supported conclusions. The executive summary of his report suggests “urbanization sorts population on attributes -- ethnicity, personality, and education;” and “the filtering/sorting dynamic of urbanization has produced a lower-density, mainly white population that is increasingly uniform in socially conservative personality.” These read as talking points that euphemistically cover for the inflammatory screed that conservatives vote along racial lines. It’s easily debunked by looking at exit polling from the November election, where Trump won the highest percentage of nonwhite voters of any Republican since 1960.

[MtnClimber]

I think communists have often used orchestrated social upheaval to cause people to look for something to give stability...and communism is offered as the only choice.

[PGalt]

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[mo]

ALL “progressive/left” power originates from Electoral Fraud. ALL urban decline commences with electoral fraud. ALL OF IT.

The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses..allowing the criminals to run the show.

Electoral Fraud ALWAYS precedes Leftism and Progressivism..because at the end of the day..Leftism is essentially a disordered mind/mental illness...and most people who can hold a job and are productive enough to be taxpayers are not mentally ill and reason just fine.

Those aiding and abetting local Electoral Fraud then get “theirs’ from the process starting in motion the urban declines. In the 50/60/70’s it was the bookies/the mob, by the 70/80/90’s the dope cartels, by now it has evolved into human trafficking with manifold different expressions as outlined in multiple places on the interwebs

Once the fraudulent processes are in place the networks of control assembled from decades of accumulated dirt and control crimes on one another in local and state and national politics layer and layer into a massive social/administrative/economic national mess. A slow “progression”into a nationwide dystopia.

Electoral Fraud is ALWAYS the root.

[BroJoeK]

"Urbanization index" is a new term for me, have not seen it before.
I'd suppose it attempts to quantify what any presidential election map by counties shows -- more rural counties usually vote Republican, urban counties vote Democrat.

2020 presidential election map by county:

[rlmorel]

Agreed.

“Orchestrated” is exactly the right word.

In the article, the author talk about the election results in the context of an “urbanization index” to explain them, which legitimizes the result. He talks about the “urbanization index” that he says was predictive of the outcome, which I take issue with.

What explains that outcome is “fraud”, not any kind of predictive tool.

In my opinion, the Electoral College exists to exactly prevent the effects of an “urbanization index” or some concept like it, to prevent the tyranny of a few high population centers over large groups of people who are spread out.

And that is no accident. That was exactly what the framers were aiming for, and what a lot of people in those “spread out” areas rightly feared.

And it did a pretty good job until open and unashamed fraud became entirely acceptable as a tool, which is where we are now.

Unfortunately, The Constitution was created for a moral, generally law-abiding people. It did not take into account the rapaciously corrupt people who now rule this country, and are taking deliberate and planned steps to cement their tyranny.

[rlmorel]

See my post above...I took issue with using this concept to explain the results.

[BroJoeK]

Thanks, I think you're exactly right on this:

"Unfortunately, The Constitution was created for a moral, generally law-abiding people.
It did not take into account the rapaciously corrupt people who now rule this country, and are taking deliberate and planned steps to cement their tyranny."

[rlmorel]

There are times I sure hate being right.

Damn.