The Great Sorting ｜ 6⧸21⧸23
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Summary
America has a serious problem. Healthy political bodies must share a common moral and cultural foundation if they re to work for the good of their nation. This doesn t mean everyone has to think in lockstep, but there must be at least some shared tradition with which the population can frame their understanding of political issues. This becomes especially true if the state expands its reach by assuming duties that once belonged to other social spheres like those of family, local community or church.
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Healthy political bodies must share a common moral and cultural foundation
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if they're to work for the good of their nation.
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This doesn't mean everyone has to think in lockstep.
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But there must be at least some shared tradition.
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Some basic moral language with which the population can frame
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This becomes especially true if the state expands its reach
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by assuming duties that once belonged to other social spheres
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like those of family, local community, or church.
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When the state is deciding whether parents should maintain custody of their children,
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whether individuals should be forced to receive experimental medical treatment,
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and what will be taught to every young mind in America,
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conflicts about what constitutes the good become existential.
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Originally, a system based on federalism was supposed to mitigate this problem by restricting
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the centralization of government and keeping most political power at the state level,
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where differences in regional culture could be expressed through local laws tailored to the
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traditions and dispositions of individual communities.
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In 2023, however, a vast amount of power has been shifted
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to the national government bureaucracy and local community has been shattered,
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making it incredibly difficult for regional unity to form in opposition to the toxic dictates
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If states are to defend themselves from the hedonistic and destructive monoculture of Washington,
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then communities with shared values must once again concentrate themselves
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Economic opportunity is an amazing thing, but has the nasty habit of fracturing communities.
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Young people who want to accumulate wealth and prestige leave their community and move to
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university towns to acquire the credentials necessary to hold high-status positions.
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Some recent graduates return home, but most move to metropolitan areas where high-status
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employment opportunities will be more plentiful.
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With the ease of communication and travel, few people feel it necessary to live in close
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proximity with family members who are only a text or plane flight away.
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Corporate culture is highly competitive, and climbing the ladder means being willing
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to constantly move from one part of the nation to another while chasing the next promotion,
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which completely removes any chance that a young person will set down roots
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As a result, those who would otherwise become promising up-and-coming leaders in their communities
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tend to abandon the values of that culture and adopt a homogenous metropolitan progressivism
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Even if the majority of citizens are conservative, the cities that serve as their economic and cultural
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And those progressive enclaves have an outsized impact capable of derailing the moral consensus
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America is divided by zip code, not by state lines, which means that it's incredibly difficult
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to create the unified cultural and political will necessary to protect the population from
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Until recently, most individuals were happy to trade community for prosperity, assuming
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that enough disposable income could always shield their families from the social consequences,
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but recent events have dismantled that illusion.
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The pandemic lockdowns and the biomedical tyranny that followed suddenly made it very clear that
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local and state governments could mean the difference between life and death.
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That high-status corporate career in New York may have looked very nice, but if your grandparents
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died while locked down in a nursing home and you lost your job because you refused to take
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an experimental vaccine, then your ability to attend a trendy brunch on Sunday morning seems
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It suddenly became inescapably obvious to millions of blue state residents who were not bought into
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the progressive religion that they were at the complete mercy of fanatics with whom they shared
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Blue states have been making it borderline illegal for conservatives to live within their region
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for decades by making it impossible for anyone with opposing values to get a job or own a business.
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Those that oppose progressive orthodoxy may have been willing to remain quiet and keep their
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head down on social issues, but when schools, churches, and businesses were shuttered indefinitely,
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the cost of remaining in blue states became visceral.
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Faced with the prospect of living with an N95 mask strapped to their face for the rest of
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their lives while Black Lives Matter protesters burned down their neighborhood, many decided
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to flee to regions that had stood against the progressive jihad.
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As Americans fled by a medical tyranny, they settled in states like Florida, which became
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A culture of resistance against progressivism formed into a more conservative moral identity,
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and the political capital accumulated by Governor Ron DeSantis due to his opposition to biomedical
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tyranny allowed him to go on the offensive against progressive indoctrination in a way that many
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Florida, a swing state which had been trending purple for a decade, suddenly became the subject
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of endless hyperbolic progressive hit pieces as it banned the teaching of critical race
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DeSantis wrote his wave of political momentum and converted it into a resounding electoral
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victory by reforming voting laws during the 2022 midterm while the rest of the GOP fizzled.
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The governor refused to stop, following up with a ban on transgenderist child mutilation
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DeSantis even teamed up with conservative activist Chris Ruffo to take over a notoriously progressive
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state college and transform it into a haven for conservative students and professors.
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Not only were more conservative residents moving into Florida, but progressives were now actively
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fleeing the state as new legislation threatened what they held dear.
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Establishment conservatives had told their voters that the culture war was unwinnable, a waste
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of time, but by engaging in it directly, DeSantis secured power in a way that the right had
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In fact, the moral visions of red and blue America are now diametric opposites which cannot
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Permanent Washington is so thoroughly corrupt and broken that no one, not even a capable leader
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like Ron DeSantis will likely be able to repair it.
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Many have discussed the possibility of national divorce, which I think is unlikely in the near
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future, but the Great Sorting can and is happening right now.
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The left has made it impossible for red America to exist in their states for decades, and it's
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Create an environment where people can once again recognize the necessity of living next to
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Create the moral and political will necessary to defend your state from the corrosive, progressive
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The rise in remote work has already afforded many who are no longer shackled to a blue city
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The faster blue and red America can peacefully separate, the better it will be for everyone.
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