“The point about the three great examples of the advanced part of a nation subjugating the backward part is insightful and chilling.”
I do not accept the premise that blue states are advanced, and the so called red states are backwards. Show me examples of how “advanced” blue states and the cities are please. I see pervasive corruption, abysmal education, complete moral depravity, homelessness, and in some of them human feces litters the streets.
None of that is the case in “red” states.
They are backwards, we are advanced.
Here would be a good test. For one week, no trade between Blue and Red areas of the country. Who suffers worse? I am sure a good programmer could run a simulation of what would occur if all interstate trade and travel in the USA between Blue and Red regions stopped for one week. They need us more then we need them. Before this country devolves any further maybe we need to show those snobs how much they really need us.