Posted on 10/31/2003 10:26:19 AM PST by pabianice
In reading other posts here on FR and in spending most of the day just reading (I'm a reporter), I am again struck how the US has split into two countries: "red" Bush America and "blue" Gore America. That's nit news. What's most compelling is how Bush America is increasingly having to prop-up the utterly failed Great Society/Gore America, and for just how much longer such a situation can exist.
Item: teacher disciplined for telling Mexican kids in her US class to stop disrupting the class (she's a "racist" for so doing). The other kids in the class continue to get no education and the Liberals think that's just fine -- for other kids. The LIberals opt out of the system by sending THIER kids to private schools.
Item: A conservative estimate puts as much as 35% of the American economy underground. Taxpayers are fed-up with having 50% or more of of their hard-earned pay taxed by the feds, the state, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. So peopledo the natural thing: opt out of the system by going cash-only, off the books.
Item: the blue states lead in victim disarmament, where the law-abiding are denied the constitutional right to self-defense while the Liberals turn a blind eye at violence from career criminals ("poor victims of a racist system"). Liberals make sure they live in guarded, gated communities, and never have to set foot in any scruffy areas as they drive their SUVs from gated home to gated office building. Others who can, opt out by leaving such areas for places where they can carry concealed if they wish and where criminals know they are likely to be shot.
Item: International embarrassments like Ted Kennedy give long, boozy speeches about the evils of President Bush while his devotees urinate themselves in the glow of their self-righteousness. Others simply ignore such crap and tune-into talk radio.
Item: "Blue" America is financially bankrupt, and California is a glaring example. "Blue" America has degenerated into a coven of grasping, mentally diminished, selfish, thuggish special interest groups who have become increasingly violent in fighting over what is left of the Big City Democratic machines that have run things for the past 150 years. The "blue" islands on the 2000 map can best be described as cancers on the national MRI -- blighted areas of malignant, imploding selfishness that are trying to spread across the entire national body. And the "red" nation has to keep paying for it.
I have to wonder how much longer this will be the case. The defacto separation of "red" and "blue" has already occurred, and is fat too profound to be fixed by any social "bussing." At what point does the whole scheme collapse? And how is this going to be expressed and dealt with in the coming 2004 elections?
Understand completely.
MM
We'll take Ok, Ark, Ks, and Neraska with us for $ 500 Alex.
Not really. The liberals think we need to give them more money to throw at the problem.
Yes, and union workers can't work off the books, so now tell me, who's a patriot? The suckers that underwrite your tax frauds? Guess so.
This sounds like a true statement but it actually is not. In general once the cancer has started to metastasize it's too late and it does no good to remove it.
In general the treatment goal is to remove the cancer before the metastasis has begun.
It may seem that I'm just picking nits here but in fact the analogy may be particularly apt and the nit I'm picking may be more than just a nit. Point being, if the socialist cancer has already metastisized, it may be too late in the social realm as well as the biologic one.
I'd be curious as to the demographics. Most of Federal spending is for 'entitlements', including Social Security. Many retirees head for these 'red' states because the cost of living is cheaper. I've no idea how many do this, though; if it's a significant percentage.
Another view is that the Blue counties (forget the states) are all coastal ports/industrial centers or the Mississippi River (think barge traffic). So, it isn't unreasonable to expect the big revenue generators to be located near the ports. The heartland is either the farmland that feeds the rest of the country or remote protected national parkland.
-PJ
A copy of DNC & green party mailing lists would be helpful in sorting things out.
Brilliant idea. However, President Bush lost my state by 5709 votes and would have probably won had their been a recount and a thorough investigation into voting irregularities, but if you want Wisconsin out of the Union, well, hey, show us the door.
You also might want to tell the GOP that instead of Wisconsin being high on the list of target states to just forfeit it in 2004 to the Dems.
Is that what you want?
John Titor where are you?
Apt metaphor. It'll get more than ugly. Prepare for war.
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