Red states are failing on every level

[Politruk]

David Pakman explains.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

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[Escierto]

Failing? Let's face it. MAGA people do not value education, good health, intelligence, personal safety, nice neighborhoods, etc. You take the average MAGGOT on food stamps, living in a trailer park, cooking meth, on probation etc and he is not going to be happy in Massachusetts. There are no shared values that would allow him to live peaceably with intelligent rational human beings.

So the MAGA states are not failing. They are crime infested, drug addicted, obese, crime ridden, violent, poor, ignorant hell holes exactly the way their residents want them to be.

 

[Politruk]

Kurt Schlichter has written a series of novels in which the blue and red states have separated -- and the red states thrive, economically, while the blue states languish. That is not how it would go.

 

[Politruk]

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[dmallord]

Kurt Schlichter has written a series of novels in which the blue and red states have separated -- and the red states thrive, economically, while the blue states languish. That is not how it would go.

"National Review’s Jim Geraghty calls Kurt Schlichter’s “People’s Republic” “a surreal, fast-paced journey through a dramatically different America but less than a generation away. … Violent, imaginative, full of mordant humor and dark, gritty details, you won’t want to live in this People’s Republic…but you’ll feel a chill as you wonder how different our real future will be.”"

The first book chronicles an 'anti-hero' type fighting for survival in a fictional world.

Schlichter is a retired Army Colonel and frequent Fox News commentator. He writes fiction. Hopefully, you understand that means it is made up shit for entertainment purposes, akin to Fox News frequently.

 

[Politruk]

Schlichter is a retired Army Colonel and frequent Fox News commentator. He writes fiction. Hopefully, you understand that means it is made up shit for entertainment purposes, akin to Fox News frequently.

Certainly. But it is also author-tract political propaganda, no less so than The Turner Diaries, or Atlas Shrugged, or Harold Covington's Northwest Front, or William S. Lind's Victoria. Fiction of that kind must be judged by standards other than literary quality.

 

[Imakewetspots]

Every time I drive through the ghettos of inner city Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and the other giant Democrat owned metropolis's of our great country, I see all the smiling faces of the destitute, the homeless, the unemployed and the addicts. Generations of them.

All I can think is how well Democrats look after those folks. It’s truly heartwarming. And I think how nice it would be if the entire country looked exactly like that.

 

[Politruk]

Every time I drive through the ghettos of inner city Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and the other giant Democrat owned metropolis's of our great country, I see all the smiling faces of the destitute, the homeless, the unemployed and the addicts. Generations of them.

All I can think is how well Democrats look after those folks. It’s truly heartwarming. And I think how nice it would be if the entire country looked exactly like that.

Nevertheless, those places are where the GDP comes from. Little wealth -- and little of non-material value, such as culture, art, or intellectual activity -- or just plain fun -- is produced in Bibletown, Missitucky.

 

[Imakewetspots]

Nevertheless, those places are where the GDP comes from.

Seriously? Think about what you just said. What an outrageously f’d up way to dismiss the suffering of others.

Yes, GDP comes from areas like that but that doesn’t mean millions upon millions of people deserve to suffer under the bootheel of degenerate Democrat city leaders who fatten themselves while claiming to care, but doing nothing, for those generations of lost people.

If folks like you were allowed your way, we really would look like the old USSR, all in the name of some ‘greater good’ which only the privileged leaders would get to enjoy.

 

[dmallord]

Certainly. But it is also author-tract political propaganda, no less so than The Turner Diaries, or Atlas Shrugged, or Harold Covington's Northwest Front, or William S. Lind's Victoria. Fiction of that kind must be judged by standards other than literary quality.

Are you attempting to offer commentary on fictional works here as though they are factual political corollaries between them and current events and thus relevant to some point you're trying to make?

 

[Politruk]

Seriously? Think about what you just said. What an outrageously f’d up way to dismiss the suffering of others.

Yes, GDP comes from areas like that but that doesn’t mean millions upon millions of people deserve to suffer under the bootheel of degenerate Democrat city leaders who fatten themselves while claiming to care, but doing nothing, for those generations of lost people.

If folks like you were allowed your way, we really would look like the old USSR, all in the name of some ‘greater good’ which only the privileged leaders would get to enjoy.

No, if folks like me were allowed our way, we would look like the social democracies, where there is no poverty or homelessness to speak of and very little crime and the privileged leaders are less privileged -- and less rich -- than they are in America now.

 

[Politruk]

Are you attempting to offer commentary on fictional works here as though they are factual political corollaries between them and current events and thus relevant to some point you're trying to make?

That is the authors' intent and the books should be criticized in those terms.

 

[Imakewetspots]

No, if folks like me were allowed our way, we would look like the social democracies, where there is no poverty or homelessness to speak of and very little crime and the privileged leaders are less privileged -- and less rich -- than they are in America now.

I had a neighbor from one of those countries. He moved here because he couldn’t find a job after two years. After ten years here, he made a killing, especially from his house and went back to that country. I just heard he’s almost out of money again and having trouble finding a job.

No thanks. We’re doing okay. If we got rid of the Democrat party, this country could really shine.

 

[dmallord]

That is the authors' intent and the books should be criticized in those terms.

Then, post some background noise or critiques of the works rather than toss them here like chaff to the winds without connecting relevancy. Otherwise, you risk sounding pedantic.

 

[ChinoMoreno]

All I can think is how well Democrats look after those folks

It warms my heart to see all of the Republicans lined up in front of abortion clinics begging to adopt each potentially viable baby!

 

[Imakewetspots]

It warms my heart to see all of the Republicans lined up in front of abortion clinics begging to adopt each potentially viable baby!

So if I get your point correctly, my not adopting the unborn children of Democrats is the justification you use to turn your back on the millions of innocent people sht upon and left behind (by Democrats) in inner city slums across America. I see…

Perhaps there’s another angle you might consider. I would argue that a massive chunk of abortions are women living in these ghettos you conveniently choose to forget about and the reason they feel abortion is the only answer is because they’re living in a shithole (created and maintained by Democratic leadership) and they simply don’t want to bring a new generation into a hopeless situation.

And of course there’s another, less talked about reason. Every abortion is one less person on the govt payroll so the savings can be used for things you approve of like supporting your favorite art museum or whatever lib thing that benefits you.

There are no better examples of the divide between the ultra rich and the utter poor to be found than in the great Democrat owned cities such as San Francisco.

 

[ChinoMoreno]

So if I get your point correctly, my not adopting the unborn children of Democrats

You did not get my point correctly bro.

 

[Politruk]

So if I get your point correctly, my not adopting the unborn children of Democrats is the justification you use to turn your back on the millions of innocent people sht upon and left behind (by Democrats) in inner city slums across America. I see…

None of those people are suffering because Democrats are in charge, you idiot. Democrats are in charge because they are suffering -- the poor know which party cares about them at least a little, so that's how they vote. They would be suffering a lot worse if Pubs were in charge. And you know it.

 

[Politruk]

If we got rid of the Democrat party

Then everything bad about America would get a whole lot worse. The GOP in its present formation is nowhere any better than Trump -- who brings out the worst in everyone. Trump both embodies and encourages/validates all that is evil in the American national character -- willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, greed, dishonesty, arrogance, racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, American exceptionalism, religious bigotry, producerism, etc., etc.

There is nothing uglier than a redhat rally.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Every time I drive through the ghettos of inner city Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and the other giant Democrat owned metropolis's of our great country, I see all the smiling faces of the destitute, the homeless, the unemployed and the addicts. Generations of them.

All I can think is how well Democrats look after those folks. It’s truly heartwarming. And I think how nice it would be if the entire country looked exactly like that.

You clearly have never actually been to any of the cities you listed.

Now make excuses about why the states at the bottom of every ranking are red.

 

[CambridgeBi]

we would look like the social democracies, where there is no poverty or homelessness to speak of and very little crime

Where is that specifically? It sounds like Fantasy Island.

The only places I know in Europe that fit the description of low crime, no poverty / homelessness are places of the rich like the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly or Monaco.