If, like me, you enjoy scanning the comment section at the bottom of provocative political articles, you already know the sentiment you are most likely to encounter: “Just leave your politics behind!” It is always written, of course, by some red state resident trying to make blue state newcomers realize that the economic problems they have just fled are the result of the very policies they themselves had previously voted for.
Variations on this warning are so common, in fact, that they often pop up at the bottom of stories having nothing to do with the fiscal woes of left-leaning states. It is as if the red state reader is saying, “Yeah, nice article but let’s not forget what’s really important – stopping the voters who stupidly destroyed their own communities from having the same effect where I live.”
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