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Red America is economically moribund, living off subsidized commodity industries half of which are under threat due to the energy transition, and automation. Culturally it years for 1830. Economically it has nothing left in the tank except a wishful fantasy of dominating China.
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Their *best* utopia is that China continues to buy hogs and soybeans and leaves just enough manufacturing here based on obsolete machinery to let it feel technologically needed. This is.... grim. Not a future I’d want to stay alive for.
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They’ve seemingly given up all hope of participation in any economic activity that has emerged since about 1985. They use computers but act like they wish the PC and everything that came after hadn’t been invented at all. It’s odd to not feel at least a little excitement about it
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unPlan because what Red America *has* right now is something like a 1980s vintage Marshall Plan. It’s a bad 1940s vintage plan based on a self-template mix of trying to install the free market via a command economy.
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unPlan? Could you clarify? Thanks
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It was an advanced idea for 1948. It was a bad idea for 1985 that created a dysfunctional Red welfare state that aimed to prop up dignity without creating any real economic agency. In 2020 it is a hopelessly bad model.
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That’s just the blue lottery. Many won big too. That’s why there’s plenty of closet Trumperies in high blue places. They snuck across but retained some fundamental attutudes. Your use of the term “American decline” says it all. The part that thrived feels like a foreign country.
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Perspective dude. 1985 to 2015 was a sustained boom and a lot of us thrived. Me included. Don’t overindex on you and your friends.