I’ve done my research, and while I admit some areas are a lost cause (red states) due to the electoral college giving those states undemocratic over representation, blue counties are 80% of US economic activity and where people will continue to congregate (and where political efforts should be focused) as the US continues to urbanize.

80% of farmers voted for this, and are going to lose their farms because of it. Hispanics voted for this, and are getting deported because they’re finding out they aren’t white adjacent enough. Older voters who did well under capitalism are happy with centrism because they were lucky and wealthy from their luck of good wages and early exposure to real estate and equities (30% of wealth is held by the 70+ cohort per Apollo Group). They don’t want to rock the boat, and have no incentive to improve the future. You’re not going to win hearts and minds of some cohorts. “Progress occurs one funeral at a time.” —- Planck

My father, a conservative who has lost everything because of repeated poor personal choices and who I financially support says, “what, you want the government to take care of you?” while only having Medicare and Social Security besides my help to carry him from his 70s to death, so I am exceptionally familiar with the cognitive dissonance we’re experiencing at scale. Call a spade a spade and move on.

Tracking the Farm Economy in Crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581983 - September 2026

Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633921 - June 2026 (14 comments)

Trump’s megabill will hurt the health of his own voters - https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/5387100... - July 7th, 2025

> “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid,” McConnell reportedly told his Senate GOP colleagues at a closed-door luncheon. “But they’ll get over it.”

(he’s finally hurting the people who deserve it; his supporters and voters)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105986

He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf]