"This is not a third world country. This is Houston, Texas" is so precisely wrong in that "you're so close to getting it, please keep working on that thought" way
I think the most important part of my political education was learning, when I was barely a teenager, that West Virginia certainly WAS what the phrase "third world country" is supposed to signify, and spending my young adulthood wrapping my head around that fact
Red States tend to be places where government and institutions have been captured by the powerful corporate interests that reside there and fight for hegemony over it. That's 95% of it.
If you know what a "company town" is, just expand that to "company states" and add the interlocking effects of many different companies sharing/squabbling over governance
and from there, ooops, you're at *least* a socialist now
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