Are Red States Better Than Blue States?

            The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is the need for citizens to be well informed about candidates for office. With the freedom to vote for representatives comes the responsibility to do diligent research and to be informed about the choices. This does not always happen for a variety of reasons.

            Two journalists from the New York Times recently explored “what happens when Democrats control all the levels of power in state and local governments across the country.” They were “shocked” when they discovered the problems in “blue states.” Times video journalist Johnny Harris teamed up with Times editorial board writer Binyamin Appelbaum to examine why blue states “struggle to advance the progressive policies” when they have no Republican opposition. 

They focused on three core initiatives of the Democratic Party platform: affordable housing, economic equality, and educational opportunity. And in the end, they discovered that “liberal hypocrisy,” not Republican opposition, “is fueling American inequality” and that things are actually much worse in blue states than they are in red.

In key respects, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states,” the journalists noted in a written report accompanying the video. “It is in the blue states where affordable housing is often hardest to find, there are some of the most acute disparities in education funding and economic inequality is increasing most quickly.”

“Blue states are the problem,” Applebaum, who covers economics and business for the Times, exclaimed.

“Blue states are where the housing crisis is located. Blue states are where the disparities in education funding are the most dramatic. Blue states are the places where tens of thousands of homeless people are living on the streets. Blue states are the places where economic inequality is increasing most quickly in this country. This is not a problem of not doing well enough; it is a situation where blue states are the problem,” he added.

At one point, Harris noted that “affluent liberals tend to be really good at showing up at the marches and talking about how they love equality, [and] at putting signs in their lawns saying, ‘All are welcome here.’”

“But by their actions,” he continued, “What they are actually saying is, ‘Yes, we believe in these ideals, just not in my backyard.’”

            Americans can see what is happening, and they are moving from blue states to red states. Even Nancy Pelosi is doing it! She recently purchased a multi-million-dollar home in Florida! Americans prefer to live free in red states, but those fleeing blue states often take the liberal ideas with them and try to turn the red states into the type of place they fled. All Americans should open their eyes and see things as they really are and investigate why liberal policies are so terrible, while conservative policies work every single time that they are tried.