Yeah, but Bob, they’d pretty much have to have this ability, or they’d never be suitable for a role, would they?

I am. I consider JournoList as frank evidence of such, namely, collusion between Reds to decide and control the media narrative they will present to the proletariat. This done all the while hiding that they were acting in concert, to make it appear that they’d all independently reached the same conclusion.

So not to go all tin-foil hat here, but secret cooperation to decide on the line to advance the Party’s interests … yeah, I’d call that a conspiracy.

I expected that there would be a bunch of political movies leading up to the 2012, such as HBO’s Game Change, in attempt to gin up support for Obama. What I didn’t expect was the rash of red state/tea party-hating films like Straw Dogs, Red State, Hick, Butter, etc. These people are actively painting half of this country as stupid, bigoted, flat-earthers. It’s a bit jarring to realize that they really believe we are no better than Nazis.

I really don’t mind folks who disagree with me. I’ve been to the top of several mountains but haven’t ever spoken to a burning bush. What gets me is the alleged panic over something that they can , with their own eyes isn”t true. And then to have the nerve to tell me I’m stupid.

I am with you. That meme has become a sore spot with me. When it is asserted, I do not remain calm and composed. Rather, I feel, within, the stirrings of anger; the instinct to cry havoc.

Let’s just suppose for the sake of argument that we don’t have to worry about anything practical – like civil war or procedural obstacles – and that there was a feasible way to break the coasts into their own country…

Do you think leftists would want it? I mean, would they want their country to be, basically, LA, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, New York City, Boston, Philly, and Newark? (For we are supposing that all the conservative people in “Coastal America” exodus to the interior to be in “Real America” (or whatever we call it). They’d be left with tech guys, financiers and other rich rent-seekers, Hollywood, college kids, musicians, serious ideological unionists, communists of all shape and size and flavor… and that’s about it.

Then we stipulate that all the practicalities we bracketed to get to that point kick in once the country is broken up.

Would the Democrats take it? Set aside what conservatives would prefer – it often seems, when I listen to and talk to lefties (which is often), like that is what they want. In other words, it’s their ideal. A pure “left-leaning” state.

I think one possible result of this thought-experiment is that many people who self-identify as Democrats would opt to stay in Real America (even if it was stipulated that Real America would not have the centralized and unionized characteristics that would transfer to Coastal America). How many would choose to stay? Who knows, but I suppose the answer is “a lot.”

This would lead to a more leftist cast developing in Coastal America, which is presumably what the leftists desire anyway.

I’d never thought about it like this before, but it does appear that ultimately, when a decisive choice has to be made between leftism and conservatism, most Americans would choose conservatism.

That’s encouraging, but only a little bit, because I’m not sure what it will take to get people to realize they are facing an analogous choice already. We have never really tried conservative government post-1900, with the closest contenders probably being the Coolidge and Reagan years. The greatest trick the liberals have pulled is convincing people that we HAVE tried conservative governance, and that it has failed. (Of course, leftists think we haven’t really tried leftist governance either; cf. Paul Krugman. All I can say to that is that the administrative state shows that we have had far more leftist governance than conservative governance. How many times would the Department of Education have been abolished if we had actually had conservative governance? Yet it’s still here).

Let’s hope the choice becomes clearer to enough people in the coming months.

…except, we can’t do that *now*, so never mind.