Just in case there are some people here who are still clinging to the totally illusory notion that the U.S. is now anything but an almost completely right-wing society…geographically if in no other way.
From NPR, that (former?) bastion of center/left propaganda.
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The moral of this story for those leftinesses who might still believe that they live in the real America and that the flyover bunch are just some afterthought? Not geographically they aren’t, because the old “location, location, location” meme holds true on any number of levels. Those that populate sheer square mileage have power, too, no matter what the actual population densities may be. They have the real estate, and without that real estate, blue U.S. is just a few fairly isolated urban areas surrounded by…bet on it…masses of armed and mostly hostile citizens.
Hostile to you.
Personally.
For me, the “Counties that voted more Republican” part of the third map is the real story here. The dark grey areas. “Counties that voted more Republican than in 2012.” That’s where the switch got flipped.
Careful where you travel and how you act, my little leftiness friends.
You been rejected.
I am reminded of the section in the Peter and the Wolf story where the duck is sheltered from the cat because the cat doesn’t like to swim. But…as winter comes, encroaching ice is gradually making the duck’s safety boundaries smaller and smaller.
Look at the blue “safety” areas in the first and second maps. Red-ice winter is fast approaching.
Where’s our Peter when we most need him?
And who is he/she going to be?
Stay tuned.
It’s just gonna get more….Interesting.
May you be born into interesting times.” – An ancient Chinese curse.
And here we jolly well are, aren’t we.
“Interested” like a motherfucker!!!
Interested in simple survival.
Bet on that as well.
Later…
AG
