I find increasingly that the division between Red and Blue America has a distinct linguistic quality; less in accent and more in rhetoric, labels, and framing. (1/7)

I know conservatives from "Red" areas, many who are intelligent. However, unless those individuals make a conscious EFFORT to read publications like the NYT, each invariably communicates in a language that is unfashionable, predictable, and counter-productive to their ends. (2/7)

This linguistic difference is not an accident, but rather a popular consumer product of our mainstream cosmopolitan information managing institutions. It is also one of the chief frustrations of those of us who want to oppose or radically reform said institutions. (3/7)

There is nothing Blue America likes better than to change language and framing. For proof, see the recent history of "queer" versus "homosexual" (a P.C. inversion since 1990) or the various new words for non-white people (changes every 5 years). (4/7)

However, what is less frequently mentioned is that Blue/cosmopolitan language is developed EXPLICITLY to counter-signal and re-frame talking points originating from Red America and their Republican allies. (5/7)

Blue empire controls information flow, therefore there is a strange parallax effect where Blue America can see Red America, but Red America can only see the Blue America of the past. (6/7)

I hear intelligent Red Americans talk and I cringe even if I agree. It's like watching someone run out to in the street to fire a musket at an Panzer Tank. How to stop this dynamic is less clear. Every time I try to bring it up I sound like a condescending elitist. (7/7)