which do you align with? which America do you want to belong?
which do you think the founders envisioned?
Posted on 11/07/2012 9:10:56 AM PST by teflon9
But whether Barack Obama is elected to a second term or Mitt Romney is elected the 45th president, the contours of their support during this fiercely fought campaign show that we live in two Americas.
The culturally cohesive America of the 1950s that some of us remember, usually glossing over racial segregation and the civil-rights movement, is no longer with us and hasn’t been for some time.
Niche media has replaced universal media.
One America listens to Rush Limbaugh, the other to NPR. Each America has its favorite cable news channel. As for entertainment, Americans have 100-plus cable channels to choose from, and the Internet provides many more options
We tend to choose the America that is culturally congenial. Most people in the San Francisco Bay area wouldn’t consider living in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, even for much better money. Most metroplexers would never relocate to the Bay Area.
There are plenty of smart and creative and successful people in both Americas. But they don’t like to mix with each other these days.
One America tends to be traditionally religious, personally charitable, appreciative of entrepreneurs, and suspicious of government. The other tends to be secular or only mildly religious, less charitable, skeptical of business, and supportive of government as an instrument to advance liberal causes.
The more conservative America tends to be relatively cohesive. Evangelical Protestants and white Catholics make common cause ... Southern or northern accents don’t much matter.
That’s typical of the Republican party, which has always had core support from people who are seen as typical Americans but are not by themselves a majority in our always diverse country.
The more liberal America tends to be diverse. Like Obama’s 2008 coalition, it includes many at the top and at the bottom of the economic ladder.
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So true
After that, the world has 1,000 years of peace on earth. Evey man will sit under and tend to his own vine, and no man will be able to take it away from him.
The Dems and Libs will never go for this. Who would they take from?
Are you serious?
Talk about economic suicide. How many of us are willing to sell their house at a loss, quit their job, uproot the family and relocate to God knows what.
It wasn't always that way. I think the MSM sorts got together at some point and decided that it might be harmful if the Dim states continued to be illustrated as 'red' states.
Looks like it changed in 1992.
Highly doubt we can put it back together. The country was more cohesive in the 1960’s than it is now. And it’s only going to get worse. Both sides might as well be from totally different planets. There is no common ground whatsoever.
I refuse to bash Barone. He is still the premier voting analyst in America, bar none (little pun there).
Barone had a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the pre-election polls. He said "the fundamentals" were there for a Romney landslide.
And indeed, those fundamentals --the horrible economy primarily-- were there. If this were 30-40 years ago, Obama would've been out on his ass, just like Carter.
But some things have changed in America in the last 30-40 years, much worse than either we, or Michael Barone, realized ... until last night.
I refuse to bash Barone. He is still the premier voting analyst in America, bar none (little pun there).
Barone had a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the pre-election polls. He said "the fundamentals" were there for a Romney landslide.
And indeed, those fundamentals --the horrible economy primarily-- were there. If this were 30-40 years ago, Obama would've been out on his ass, just like Carter.
But some things have changed in America in the last 30-40 years, much worse than either we, or Michael Barone, realized ... until last night.
>>>The Dems and Libs will never go for this. Who would they take from?<<<
I think they’d go for it. In their minds, the only thing keeping them from hedonistic bliss, is us greedy, uptight, bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing conservatives.
They have no concept of the idea that other people’s money actually comes from (wait for it)... other people. The rude awakening won’t come until after the divorce papers are signed.
We should offer them a sweetheart deal, giving in on almost every disputed piece of territory or other assets. (We can buy them back cheap from them for food, fuel and blankets, when they are cold and starving in a few years).
We've passed the tipping point, where the immoral outnumbers the moral, the pagans the God worshippers, the takers the producers. Decline is inevitable.
Thank-you, George, Ben, Thomas, John, and others who gave us so much. I'm glad you're not here to see what your unique nation and government has become.
Tribalism/globalism.
It changed on Election Night 2000, and willfully so by the Orwellian Newsspeak media with GOPers refusing to repudiate the false label. The irony of Conservatives exclaiming they want to paint America “Red”, well... that’s exactly what we got. Red is Communist.
I really didn't see the republican party that showed up and waited in line at chickfila decide to sit at home rather than vote for the future of the nation.
But he is right. The Obama voters I know have a radically different idea of how things work than I do. Our differences are irreconcilable.
You don't know many liberals. They believe that the government creates wealth and the rich steal too much of it. As far as they are concerned, fewer rich people means more money for them.
I can only speak for one.
“Can we put Humpty Dumpty back together, or are we headed the way of Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia?”
Dissolution. Finally.
Me either. A lot of smart guys just got it wrong. The University of Colorado researchers miscalled the results, too. Last night was the first time they got it wrong.
which do you align with? which America do you want to belong?
which do you think the founders envisioned?
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