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Analysis by Fareed Zakaria: Blue America is Western Europe. Red America is Saudi Arabia & Nigeria. (Original Post) egbertowillies May 2022 OP
Pulling your punches dude, red states are like Iran. Thomas Hurt May 2022 #1
Nope. Taliban hlthe2b May 2022 #3
Very true... hlthe2b May 2022 #2
Fareed misses reality SteelReel May 2022 #4
Not Nigeria. Afghanistan and the Taliban. Martin68 May 2022 #5

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Pulling your punches dude, red states are like Iran.
Tue May 10, 2022, 10:40 AM
May 2022

They want a Christian Republic of the United States. They have more in common with political Islam than not.

hlthe2b

(102,304 posts)
3. Nope. Taliban
Tue May 10, 2022, 10:46 AM
May 2022

Iran for all its regression since the Iranian Revolution is still far more advanced (with far more education) than what the regressive RW wants Red State America to be. They most closely align with tribalism, authoritarian religiosity, and total repression of women--the Taliban.

SteelReel

(25 posts)
4. Fareed misses reality
Tue May 10, 2022, 12:22 PM
May 2022

People replace religion and that need to belong to a group with
joining another group like QAnon or being a Trumper.
That is the problem.

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