People who refuse to vote generally refuse acknowledge that the blood spilled by the winner of the election is on their hands. Just as much as it is on those who voted for the winner.
I have found this to be true. The consequences of inaction are real, especially when you know what the outcome of that inaction will be. That being said. I find both the left and liberals completely unwilling to take any responsibility for this failure. Just abject self righteousness on all sides.
I don’t really like the trolley problem tbh, people often wield it like a cudgel, or maybe like a shield, so they don’t need to “make new tracks”. Like, they’re kind of telling you in advance that they don’t intend on offering better choices. Well, at least on the internet, that’s how ppl use it.
I’d add, as someone in the reddest state & from a newly red state, I’m not sure you can totally account for the immigration from CA to TX based on economics alone. The white flight during and after Covid from cities to more rural places has 1/
been off the charts. Especially to places like Montana. They’ll just straight up tell realtors they want to live in MT or WY because it’s so white (and to live out their Wild West fantasies). I’m not sure how a person accounts for that in the numbers, but it’s a not small factor.
In general though, I agree, blue state liberals are often very smug about being better than red states, and true, I am jealous of the cultural tolerance, but their economic policies are still shit. The labor is still grossly racialized (despite all the progressive values). I could go on.
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I’d add, as someone in the reddest state & from a newly red state, I’m not sure you can totally account for the immigration from CA to TX based on economics alone. The white flight during and after Covid from cities to more rural places has 1/