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The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density
Dave Troy Blog ^ | November 19th, 2012 | Dave Troy

Posted on 09/04/2013 5:19:18 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas

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To: bert

Fraud merely intensifies what is already a phenomenon.

E.g., there is no way voters in NYC are conservative, with fraud the primary cause of the outcome of their elections.


21 posted on 09/04/2013 6:50:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ckilmer
I am an urban voter and fill-out both the W2 and the 1099. I wish the cities had mostly employees paying taxes. That is not even close. Most cities have around 40% on welfare. Depressed cities over 60% on welfare. Most cities today are welfare magnets in the business of providing welfare. Cities on the coasts and a couple in the middle have financial industries and software tech that pick-up some of the tax slack. Those cities still have a significant welfare industry. The only way to win back cities is to get people off welfare. I don't see any other way. The democrats want to keep people on welfare or give them government jobs.
22 posted on 09/04/2013 6:59:41 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: M. Dodge Thomas

I think the question should be long term.

Democrats support Agenda 21, with the idea of moving most of the people in America’s heartland to the coasts, radically increasing the population density there.

Therefore, conservatives should take the opposite approach, to lower population densities in urban areas by encouraging emigration to often empty rural areas. Importantly, as a grand plan, this involves a lot of infrastructure to support such communities with water, power, transportation and many other things.


23 posted on 09/04/2013 7:29:49 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: from occupied ga

“The article is drivel - Another author who confuses correlation with causation.”

Beat me to it. Absolute crap. Waste of time.


24 posted on 09/04/2013 7:37:53 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: M. Dodge Thomas

It sounds like a B horror movie.

“I was a white male, Evangelical, pro-life voting veteran, until they built all those Apartments and condos in my small town, now I love Obama”


25 posted on 09/04/2013 8:28:35 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ckilmer
Likely the difference between low density and high density population voting patterns reflects the relative percentage of people receiving W2 vs 1099’s.

There is certainly some evidence this is a major cause of urban/rural political differences. Two other closely related contributing factors are out-migration of the rural poor to more urban areas, and the fact that rural areas have substantially lower levels of income inequality, and its perceived as less of a *political* problem.

See for example:

http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSJuly06GimpelKarnes.pdf

26 posted on 09/04/2013 11:25:52 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: M. Dodge Thomas
The stats are accurate, so the question becomes: why are current Republican candidates failing to connect with urban (and especially younger, well educated) voters?

The best explanation is to look at John B. Calhoun's experiments with rat populations. Really. Calhoun built colonies of rats where all of their needs were met except one: space. They had all the food and water they wanted, but a finite amount of space. Calhoun expected the population of rats to grow until it filled the space and stabilize. They didn't. What happened is that the populations always peaked and then collapsed by about 90%. In the last few generations, the psychology of the rats changed for the worse. They became violent, sexually deviant, and finally just did not want to produce any offspring.

This behavior change was labelled by Calhoun as a "behavioral sink." To an astonishing degree, the democrat party, after becoming the party of the inner city, became America's behavioral sink. Every anti-social and anti-life behavior is now adopted by the democrats.

If Calhoun's experiments apply to humans, and our population has a behavioral sink leading the psychology of the population, then we are in the last couple of generations before we undergo a near complete collapse.

So what can Republicans do about it? Well, first, don't abandon rural populations, because they will be the survivors. But we need to explain to the dense cities what a behavioral sink is, and why they are trapped in one. The democrats are not offering "progress," but collapse. One advantage we have over rats is we can think consciously, so if we realize we are in a trap, we can think our way out of it. But to do so is to renounce the democrat party.

This approach is a scientific approach that I don't believe can be effectively countered by democrats. They can only ignore or vilify. But once people see things from a different perspective, they will ignore the pleadings of the behavioral sink.

27 posted on 09/04/2013 4:16:59 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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