{"id":24738,"date":"2023-07-11T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24738"},"modified":"2023-07-10T23:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T03:43:14","slug":"divergence-instead-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/divergence-instead-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Divergence Instead of Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Left, America is becoming more diverse.\u00a0 Of course, they don\u2019t do a very good job defining that word.\u00a0 If all they mean is that the earlier European American population is becoming a smaller fraction of the total population then that is true.<\/p>\n<p>Since that change is being advanced as a tactic to balkanize the population and build a voting coalition at the expense of this earlier demographic grouping then it has to be realized that this diversity is not a strong basis for long term unity but rather a weapon of convenience that will be altered to accommodate whatever changes in the electoral calculus are required.<\/p>\n<p>One thing the tactic has achieved is to reveal to many Americans just how insubstantial are the rights and benefits that those in charge supposedly guarantee to us.\u00a0 But this knowledge has revealed that there are two different populations inhabiting this country.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t base that on ethnicity or skin color.\u00a0 Because you can see both populations in all the various groups.<\/p>\n<p>I would define the dichotomy like this.\u00a0 There are a lot of people, especially the younger generations who will go along with whatever the government and other power centers in our society tell them to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying all of them are happy about it but a lot of them seem to be.\u00a0 Either way, they\u2019ll wear a mask or drive an electric car or eat bugs or anything else they\u2019re told to do.\u00a0 These are the people voting for Joe Biden.\u00a0 And then there are those who don\u2019t.\u00a0 These are the two populations that make up the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>And I do not think that these two groups will coalesce again into one group.\u00a0 In fact, I think the divide is only growing wider.\u00a0 This is because there are appearing different areas on the map where the local conditions approximate the practices that one or the other of these two groups favor.\u00a0 So, California is almost a cartoonish stereotype of how the Leftist paradise would be run.\u00a0 Nuclear power plants are being shut down.\u00a0 Gasoline engines have been outlawed.\u00a0 Pediatric transitioning is enforced against the will of parents.\u00a0 It\u2019s a perfect dysfunctional progressive madhouse.<\/p>\n<p>And places like Florida are taking active steps to push back against these very same woke policies.\u00a0 And what we see is people fleeing from places like California and moving to Florida and Texas.\u00a0 What we seem to be seeing is people self-selecting into two populations.\u00a0 They\u2019re separating because these issues provide a binary choice based on the fundamental beliefs of all people.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if these two populations have a difference in polarity.\u00a0 The same environment can attract those who have a positive charge but repel those with a negative charge. \u00a0And currently the polarity between the two groups is growing.\u00a0 The paths they are on are diverging and unless some very powerful force intercedes, I think they will be essentially two different nations.\u00a0 As different as Slovakia and the Czech Republic are.<\/p>\n<p>Now as to the racial and ethnic components of these two diametrically opposed areas, I think it is far from determined how each of these groups would end up dividing themselves between these jurisdictions.\u00a0 Questions of economic opportunity and government policies would have a huge impact but in general I would think that the same fundamental differences would tend to polarize people based on their innate values regardless of race.<\/p>\n<p>Now the intercession of a powerful force that could force these two populations to remain together is obviously intervention of the federal government.\u00a0 The analogy of the Civil War forcing the Confederacy back into the Republic is the obvious one.\u00a0 Even the introduction of an enormous immigrant population is duplicated between the present age and the Civil War era.\u00a0 But there are also differences.\u00a0 The United States back then was a dynamic expansionist nation leveraging technological and scientific innovation to produce unheard of wealth and opportunity.\u00a0 Currently we are a country in decline with a philosophy that favors shrinking all aspects of human endeavor.\u00a0 A defeatist ethic and self-loathing define the Left\u2019s approach to life.\u00a0 However, the people repelled by this viewpoint would be the ones trying to break away from this defeatist entity.\u00a0 It might prove a completely different outcome this time around.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, the Left and Right are forming different, almost opposite groups within the United States of America and there is a very definite possibility that this divergence will lead to separate geographical areas where the laws and activities will be extremely different and people will self-segregate based on the system they innately prefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Left, America is becoming more diverse.\u00a0 Of course, they don\u2019t do a very good job defining that word.\u00a0 If all they 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