I've been thinking on the Left's failure solve real urban problems and how they scapegoat the right for their failure.
Cities are polluted. Rural areas, not so much. Cities are heat islands because structures and roads trap heat. Smog is another local problem. It's no wonder that people that live in cities are responsive to global warming dogma.
People that live in rural areas are highly sensitive to a rise in the price of gasoline. It's no wonder that people who live cities do not feel as much financial pain, and therefore are less perturbed by rising fuel costs.
These urban rural differences shake out in party affiliation.
Say there's a problem with the Minneapolis police dept. It's a local problem. Perhaps it's a widespread urban problem. Common to many American cities. Republicans do not have control of a single urban area in all of America. And yet, Republicans are somehow to blame for urban problems across the board. It's a good deflection.
Income inequality is an urban phenoma as well. I don't know how a young person living in a major west coast city can afford a house. This is a solvable problem. But the Left has made decisions for decades that have exacerbated the problem.
The Left dominates education. The achievement gap narrowed until the 1980s and has been persistent ever since. The failure of the education system to erase the achievement gap is their own. Naturally the education industry diverts blame for their failure to erase the achievement gap. They falsify reality and spin a narrative that suburban and rural whites are to blame for their institutional failure. It's as dumb as the military industrial complex losing a twenty year war in Afghanistan and blaming systemic racism or global warming for their failure to win the war.
Gun violence is a problem in urban areas, but not rural ones. And urban voters don't understand the obvious reason why rural voters do not share their view.
Many of the problems the Left are concerned about amount to nothing more than local politics. And the Left uses Republicans as a bogey man, a scapegoat for their failure to solve these local issues.
Consider how California has mismanaged their forests. They blame global warming. Their propagandized voter based is ready to accept that answer. And the result is no one is held accountable for forest mismanagement.
Social media, is another Leftist controlled institution. There are news articles every week, Leftist politicians demanding change every week. And nothing really changes. It's quite bizarre to listen to people talk non-stop about the dangers of a monopoly, listen to them talk about how big corporations should be broken up. And then Democrats do nothing of the sort. It's almost as if the Democrats are actually more resistant to change than Republicans.
The Republicans did not create our current political environment, snooty white liberals did. Republicans are nearly where they were in 1994. It's the Left that has become extreme, but they talk non stop about Republican extremism. It's a deflection for their policy failures.
On Thursday I posted a series of charts that all documented a similar theme: Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right. This wasn't meant to be a rigorous...
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