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.
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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Wait which part thrived? You’re admitting that the majority of the people living in NY, LA, and SF increasingly face the same destabilizing winds that radicalized Trump country. Tech and finance have produced a new elite with an attendant PMC but what else?
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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.
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