Reflecting on Marshall Plan, it strikes me that distasteful as it might seem to both sides, Blue America needs to craft a Marshall unPlan for Red America to avert a Cold War. It’s an 1830-project Jacksonian honor society that feels humiliatingly dependent on blue tax dollars.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1286523087437983744 …
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For 25 years young people with ambition were sneaking across a domestic cultural equivalent of Berlin Wall to seek economic opportunities and lives in Blue America. Now it’s an endgame but a confused echo of 1989. Is SCOTUS = Germany? Just being reunified from the losing end?
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Nice thing is they already think we’re smug, patronizing assholes and all we do is cultural Marxist pedophilia rings selling out the country to China-ass-kissing globalists. No cred left to lose. The red caricature of blue makes the blue caricature of red look like literature.
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I find that Red America is deeply caught up in a “decline of the west” neo-spenglerian narrative with no desire to even look for a shared new common humanity narrative. They see no place for themselves on a world that the west doesn’t unilaterally dominate.
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Hence the vulnerability to simple racism. Globalism was fine so long as globe was defined as Europe+Not#rth America.
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This doesn’t actually bother me since geofenced simple racism directed at the the non-white world, unlike structural racism directed at American blacks, only affects you if want it to, and seek out conflict. If you stay in the Blue West and the cosmopolitan economy you’re fine.
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No the Marshall Plan was a response to a Cold War already well underway. The USSR and Eastern Europe were invited to participate - we knew they would decline because it was incompatible with Stalinist autarkic planned economy and managed trade policies and police state
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Small correction: Technically, Czechoslovakia asked to participate in the Marshall plan. Stalin then forced Prague to reverse itself
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Yes! This is why the pandemic Zoomification of high tech jobs is actually a path to Blue Flight from cities into... Well, we have to create a conception of localism & communitarianism that is compelling for info-economy winners.
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Density has yielded some of the cultural dynamics at play here, Abbas it turns out that while density is good for some things, it’s also bad from a “whole family & community” perspective. Also from a sustainable & resilient agriculture perspective.
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