Anyone over the age of fifty knows that things are devolving in the western world. European societies (including places like the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are degenerating from the competent, affluent and intelligent places they were even twenty years ago into mediocre (at best) struggling third world backwaters. The reasons are manifold but essentially the powers that be have intentionally worked to undermine the institutions and practices (merit-based career advancement, standards based educational advancement and preferential employment of American workers) that made an advanced civilization possible.
It seems that the damage is pretty severe. In many areas of the country young people educated under the lax standards are functionally illiterate and without skills that would make them useful employees. But at the present there are attempts to bring manufacturing back to the United States and efforts to deport illegal aliens and curtail legal immigration. But it leaves us with the question as to whether this degeneration of society will be reversed and how?
The way I see this is that improvements will be a local phenomenon and will be tied into state policies to arrest and reverse these problems. And in order for improvement to grow it will require a two-pronged effort. State government will have to enforce educational reform that verifies progress through standardized testing and state and federal agencies must work to ensure that qualified Americans can find good jobs in their state. Places like Florida, Texas and Tennessee are taking the first steps to attract jobs to their states. Low tax rates are encouraging businesses to leave places like the West Coast and the northeast and provide job opportunities for Americans. Florida has made a start at reining in the woke madness that has descended on public schools and colleges and restore them to their proper mission of providing learning for Americans who want to work in a modern nation. And right now, the Trump administration is deporting illegals from red states without the battles that occur in places like Minnesota and California. Put these conditions together and what I expect to see is normalcy begin to return to red states first.
I read somewhere recently that Mississippi has shown marked improvement in the test scores of public-school children and I wonder if the conservative nature of that state’s population in comparison with other parts of the country might be part of the reason. But in general, I expect that what will eventually happen is states that encourage merit-based rewards and have an America first policy to job creation and cooperate with immigration control will eventually become noticeably better places to live than the woke areas that have already become hellholes like New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland.
Of course, if the Democrats get back into power in Washington, they will do all they can to degrade these other locations by reopening the borders and preventing red states from targeting illegals. But I still think we may already be witnessing a bifurcation in the kind of society that will be seen in America.