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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I've read that analysis of relative government payouts, but it seems to rely on government payouts to retirees, which really doesn't speak to that dependence or the economies of the red/blue states. For one, it ignores private transfers of wealth, as happens continuously w/food
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The biggest bit is things like ag subsidies that indirectly sustain the region not personal welfare state. In fact Red rhetoric is based on larping individualism one degree removed from direct welfare.
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