I live in Texas but I’m seeing these Georgia results and I’m honestly shocked at how far left the south has shifted. I live in Texas which is red for now but I feel it will flip. I do think think a good portion of this has to do with people moving to red states. I’ll never understand people who move from blue states, complain about high taxes, and then vote for the same policies. Doesn’t help either that public schools are propaganda factories.
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People love the idea of freedom, but hate the results. That's why the founding fathers had to emphasize dangerous liberty so much. That's why books like Brave New World and The Giver are read in schools. A passion for freedom with a tolerance for danger is learned, either through history or, more unfortunately, lived experience.
Left to their own devices, most people will naturally lean toward authoritarianism and tribalism. You could almost say this is evolutionary instinct. The American education system was supposed to instill the idea of personal liberty as a form of governance and America as a larger tribe beyond your immediate family.
America began to fall once too many people began to huff their own farts and believed a freedom-loving mind would spontaneously develop from nothingness, despite a growing faction of communist educators. That American freedom was the normal and the long, bloody history of human civilization was the abnormality.