What the Hell is going on with Red State versus Blue State America – and how should we think about and what we should do about that division?
I hear a fair bit these days from left-identified people and progressives to the effect that they’d be happy with the country “breaking up” in two with the terrible right wing red states becoming their own country and the better blue states left to become, I don’t know, some kind of quasi-Northern European social democracy or something along those lines, I love to mess with progressives when they start up with this narrative. I ask them “so who gets the military and the nuclear weapons? How do you propose to manage this great divorce within the world’s leading imperial aggressor state?” More
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