I found this three-year-old video from the Noo Yak Times insightful and profound.
Blue states—defined as those states, like California and Illinois, that have Democratic governors and Democrats in control of the Legislature—are not voting their stated values.
The presenter addresses housing, taxation, and education, and demonstrates how blue state governments are systematically screwing the lower and middle class.
Please understand the point I am trying to make, however imperfectly I am making the point. The point is NOT that anyone should lash himself with a whip for the sin of “hypocrisy.” (If you feel you have been hypocritical, and if you think that self-flagellation would do you good, then go ahead. Please don’t let me stop you. But that’s not the point here.)
The point IS that
- we blue folk, collectively, are not (for whatever reason) acting and voting the values we claim to hold, and that
- the situation is unsustainable, and that,
- unless we are prepared to live in a fascist state, the economic concerns of the lower and middle class have got to be addressed, and that right soon.
Facing MAGA 