I have some friends and relatives in California who live in red areas and they think they can make it red again whenever I try to tell them to move out
They're never going to make California red. The only chance they'll have is if states start splitting because of clear evidence that the governing body is legislating benefit to the mega-urban cities and harm to the rural communities.
Completely disagree, and u/Smith1980 's friends are right to try.
As the state's condition worsens, the red areas have to just actually use power to break up the institutional power of the cities, mostly by dissolving the cities institutions and bureaucracies. Frankly, a lot of these places could probably go red except for institutional corruption. It's just that the right doesn't know how to properly fight and conquer their opponents.
Look at Ohio and Florida. Both used to be swing states, now both are becoming blood red. The political maps in the US change, sometimes very hard. Hell, there hasn't been a "Solid South" in about 30 years, and it used to be a one-party state.
I have some friends and relatives in California who live in red areas and they think they can make it red again whenever I try to tell them to move out
They're never going to make California red. The only chance they'll have is if states start splitting because of clear evidence that the governing body is legislating benefit to the mega-urban cities and harm to the rural communities.
Completely disagree, and u/Smith1980 's friends are right to try.
As the state's condition worsens, the red areas have to just actually use power to break up the institutional power of the cities, mostly by dissolving the cities institutions and bureaucracies. Frankly, a lot of these places could probably go red except for institutional corruption. It's just that the right doesn't know how to properly fight and conquer their opponents.
Look at Ohio and Florida. Both used to be swing states, now both are becoming blood red. The political maps in the US change, sometimes very hard. Hell, there hasn't been a "Solid South" in about 30 years, and it used to be a one-party state.
You aren’t wrong. I guess it just seems an impossible task in California