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Re: "Red state vs. Blue state?"
Honestly? The petty tyrant in everyone’s head who desires power to compel other people to follow HIS laws and a pathological obsession with THEIR business.
It’s obvious on both sides, and no one wants to own it because everyone believes he is right.
It’s the same thing that makes people think, “You think differently than I do, and I’m morally justified to try and destroy your life for it.”
Mar 20 · 5 months ago
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Mar 20 at 15:47:
Education and Housing are corruptible too... There's just less money to be made there right now. We could discuss where "defending people from tyrants" goes in the scale of 'local or federal'. But why not let local communities determine their own way? Rural vs. Urban environments might have totally different approaches to, say, healthcare or public transportation. Who benefits when this just HAS to be solved with a federal mandate?
Red state vs. Blue state? — Have you ever noticed how the media refers to Democrat-dominated states as Blue and Republican-dominated ones as Red? My observation is that if you see a county-by-county breakdown of the country, only the major metropolitan areas are really all that blue in the first place. Rural areas in so-called Blue states are actually just as Red as any other state!