Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

THE FUTURE OF BLUE CITIES IS FAVELAS
You don’t understand at all.
The territories would separate from the blue cities leaving them city-states.
The red states would restore traditional behavioral limits and the dysfunctional would continue to self-deport to the blue cities to avoid prosecution.
The red people in blue cities would self-deport to the red territories.
The red territories would return to high-quality commons.
The blue cities would continue to devolve into a small elite in an urban core, surrounded by favelas, while the productive middle classes would self-deport to red cities absent blue city decadence.
We know this because this happens everywhere in history. 😉
The center of the country is the optimum territory on the planet because it contains the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys for transport and trade. And the plains can feed the world.
The coasts will pay the cost of the collapse of world trade as the USA ends its policing of the world patterns of transport and trade, and Countries turn again autarkic and poor, and empires re-emerge to defend trade routes with colonies as is the constant throughout history.
Blue cities are cosmopolitan and cosmopolitanism depends on trade. And trade is going to return to 19th-century organization and costs.
And without automation people are going to get poorer, and many will starve.
And that’s because the credentialed left thinks they are wiser than the demonstrated competency of the right in military and industry.