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Author Topic:   Red State vs Blue State -- drawing battlelines?
PaulK
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Message 23 of 37 (795184)
12-08-2016 12:45 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by Faith
12-08-2016 12:24 AM


What makes you think that the polarisation would be stopped by a split ? The Right is too dominated by hatred and lies at this point to just stop. Sure, you'll get the repressive tyranny you want, but who are you going to blame for all the social ills that will inevitably afflict the Red states ?

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Message 25 of 37 (795186)
12-08-2016 2:18 AM
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12-08-2016 2:00 AM


In other words your Red State will be thoroughly repressive. Genuinely "vicious crackpot accusations" - like the "pizzagate" mess will be freely made and nobody will be permitted to disagree with them.
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RAZD had an idea about how it might be possible to avoid having to live by the odious red state policies he abhors and set up a political entity that could be governed by principles he prefers. I thought that was an interesting idea and I would really like to be able to do the same based on red state principles.
And part of the point of the proposal is that the Red States are the poorest , and therefore get net assistance from the Federal Government - they are subsidised by the Blue States. On that factor alone life would get worse in the Red States even without the policies which will increase inequality and poverty.
And my point is that the Red States would never accept responsibility for those consequences and - given the hate from the Right - there is little reason to doubt that some of that hate would be directed at the Blue States, perhaps even to the point of another civil war.
Edited by PaulK, : No reason given.

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Message 27 of 37 (795189)
12-08-2016 3:20 AM
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12-08-2016 2:23 AM


And there you go proving my point. Rather than accept the reality you direct false accusations against anyone who points out the truth.
And if the Red State policies don't work - and policies based on ideology rather than reality don't have a good record - do you really think that you would admit that ?

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