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Most of your reply is commentary, and I will ignore it as it is tangential to my point. I'm not going to bat for blue team or red team here, I'm pointing out t
by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Most of your reply is commentary, and I will ignore it as it is tangential to my point.
I'm not going to bat for blue team or red team here, I'm pointing out that we've (likely) entered an inevitable slide into the tactics of totalism. Unity is getting harder, more people have a solidified allegiance and conversions are becoming less common even among independents.
When you lose the ability to sway a shrinking middle ground your tactics adapt accordingly.
This aside, you are asking for proof of capital outflow from red demos and into blue demos under the Biden admin. I can provide that here:
[0 - breakdown of federal 2020 budget by sector]
https://www.investopedia.com/comparing-the-economic-plans-of-trump-and-biden-4843240 https://www.investopedia.com/comparing-the-economic-plans-of...
[1 - breakdown of professional catagories by political allignment]
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/most-partisan-industries https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/most-partisan...
Observe how the sectors that will receive the vast majority of new blue spending (green energy, local news, unions, government workers, regs agencies, et.c) support team blue.
Observe how the sectors most targeted with new taxes (natural resource extraction, corporate news, finance, etc.) are red supporters.
Observe how welfare spending is concentrated/directed to urban environments who vote blue.
Observe how new ballot harvesting regulations offer structural advantage to dense areas (cities) and cities vote blue.
I'm not saying It's good, it will lead to war eventually, but it is the most effective strategy when the likelihood of 'winning people over' drops. It's power politics.