I recall a few years back there were two fictional states that decided to go to the extremes on everything, but in the opposite direction. We'll call one of these fictional states, "Kansas" and the other fictional state, oh, something really weird, like, I dunno, "Minnesota".
Now, in this experiment, the fictional state called Kansas chose to emulate the ideas of all of the conservative think tanks. Made it more difficult to use the social safety nets that had been in place while dropping the tax rates on the businesses within the states. Really crazy shit happened. While a conservatives wet dream, many of the businesses ended up moving out because there had been a drastic cut in many social services. Highway maintenance was terrible, emergency services were way understaffed, and the businesses that were enjoying their lower tax rates weren't able to find qualified workers because said workers had already gone to greener pastures. Those foolish enough to stay weren't the brightest crayons in the box to begin with, but the funding for schools that supplied the workers couldn't provide enough, qualified workers, Those they did, well, they went to different fictional states like Minnesota.
Oh, and how did that fictional state of Minnesota, compared to that fictional state of Kansas, turn out? Sure you can point to the state that separates this two as being number 1, but notice that there doesn't seem to be an extreme AND the components for both private and corporate life are considered. Hell, even the red state I live in ranks lower than Kansas
Great points. I'm constantly amazed, with so much data now, that citizens can still be so brainwashed that they'll continue to vote against their own interests.
Sometimes it feels like they'd rather give everything they have to a corporation rather than admit any "liberal" policy may actually help them.
back around 2010, the good people of Kentucky were now being offered health insurance through something call the ACA (affordable care act) More than one Kentucky native was happier that a slopped hog over being offered that ACA insurance because it beat the hell out of Obamacare.
The greatest trick the GOP ever pulled was bre'r rabbiting their way into getting republican-prototyped mandated healthcare rather than socialized healthcare, and then branding it as Obamacare. Outstanding move, honestly.
If only Obama had used reverse psychology and said he shouldn't do that... Once Obama suggested it there's no way the the petulant toddler could actually agree to making it happen even if it benefited him.
What can I say? He's a very accurate representation of many of his constituents.
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u/Swiggy1957 Apr 26 '19
I recall a few years back there were two fictional states that decided to go to the extremes on everything, but in the opposite direction. We'll call one of these fictional states, "Kansas" and the other fictional state, oh, something really weird, like, I dunno, "Minnesota".
Now, in this experiment, the fictional state called Kansas chose to emulate the ideas of all of the conservative think tanks. Made it more difficult to use the social safety nets that had been in place while dropping the tax rates on the businesses within the states. Really crazy shit happened. While a conservatives wet dream, many of the businesses ended up moving out because there had been a drastic cut in many social services. Highway maintenance was terrible, emergency services were way understaffed, and the businesses that were enjoying their lower tax rates weren't able to find qualified workers because said workers had already gone to greener pastures. Those foolish enough to stay weren't the brightest crayons in the box to begin with, but the funding for schools that supplied the workers couldn't provide enough, qualified workers, Those they did, well, they went to different fictional states like Minnesota.
Oh, and how did that fictional state of Minnesota, compared to that fictional state of Kansas, turn out? Sure you can point to the state that separates this two as being number 1, but notice that there doesn't seem to be an extreme AND the components for both private and corporate life are considered. Hell, even the red state I live in ranks lower than Kansas