A philosophy of corruption ,cheating,lying and not to mention attempting to put your opposition in jail for bogus crimes.. has a negative affect on a society in general.
Then add to that a propagandists media,insane regulations,inflation,mostly bogus claims of racism by racists,rioting and decriminalization of crime..and viola you have a sham democracy thst calls itself democrats.
Kristof is an old true believer trying to sound reasonable. He has to ignore huge swatches of reality to do so.
He lies a lot too. In public education, California ranks 35, below the scorned Mississippi. Oregon ranks below Indiana. Washington state doesn’t crack the top ten.
Communists believe destroying something that works is a victory worth celebrating.
“.Democratic states enjoy a life expectancy two years longer than Republican states. Per capita G.D.P. in Democratic states is 29 percent higher than in G.O.P. states, and child poverty is lower. Education is generally better in blue states, with more kids graduating from high school and college. The gulf in well-being between blue states and red states is growing wider, not narrower.”
Bunch of baloney right there
“So the problem isn’t with liberalism. It’s with West Coast liberalism.”
This guy’s saying that West Coast liberalism is a failure, but his brand of liberalism will get it right... this time.
Heard that before.
And creating new and even more discussing depravity everyday...
They just can't stop lying can they
There needs to be competition. There are some areas where Republicans were in charge for years and they became corrupt and complacent too. There is less of a chance if Republicans are in charge but it does happen.
But if you excluded the impact of blue cities in those red states . . .
Are we FREE from having to support the fat, the lazy, those who have access to free education yet remain ignorant and untrained? No.
Are we FREE to be able to support our own families without having to support several other indigent families and their disproportionate broods? NO. Are we FREE from having to support all the hordes from the rest of the world who want to come here from corrupted lands so as to line off our earned wealth, and render our country corrupt? NO.
We aren't free at all. We are slaves to the hordes. Foreign and domestic. This idiot columnist has it all wrong. We value our true freedom way too cheaply. We are giving it away to pigs who don't even know what freedom is.
The commie elite don't want us to be free, but slaves. They want us to be forced to care for them and make money for them as servants, so thay they might live as royalty.
You'll own nothing, and be happy.
They are selling the OPPOSITE OF FREEDOM. And there are a lot of takers.
“Democratic states enjoy a life expectancy two years longer than Republican states.”
Republican states include the South, states that are highly populated and significant more, how do you say, ‘diverse’, yeah, that works. And then you have meth/fentanyl, which is pushed on red states far more than blue states.
blah, blah, blah ... progressivism is really great, it’s just that they’re not doing it correctly ...
oh, and i never knew that Chicago and NYC, two major Democrat cities that are imploding with crime and economic contraction, are west coat cities!
i also noticed that not a single counter-example of a well-run, thriving democrat-run city was mentioned when i read the full article ...
“Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Born in Chicago, Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon, the son of two professors at nearby Portland State University. Wikipedia”
His liberal bona fides.
This is a major crack in the damn.