{"id":32981,"date":"2018-03-30T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32981"},"modified":"2018-03-30T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:37:58","slug":"the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32981","title":{"rendered":"The Core"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Core<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\nJerome Liebling May Day Union Square Park New York City<\/b> 1948<\/center>
<\/center>Dr. D. peels the American political onion to get down to what it\u2019s all about. I\u2019m impressed. He explains America better than just about anyone. Turns out, there ain\u2019t much left. So yeah, what happened?<\/p>\n

<\/center>Dr. D: <\/b><\/i>The news cycle runs so frenetically it\u2019s easy to lose track of the bigger tide. Let\u2019s go back a week and look at something the Automatic Earth has been talking about since the beginning.<\/p>\n

This weekend at a speech in Mumbai, Hillary Clinton said: <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the map of the United States, there\u2019s all that red in the middle where Trump won. \u2026I win the coast\u2026.I won the places that represent two-thirds of America\u2019s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, \u2018Make America Great Again,\u2019 was looking backwards.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are many ways to look at this: for one thing, by number, over 90% of the counties are Red. Yet over 50% of the population is concentrated in the cities and Blue counties. Clinton officially won the popular vote. Yet the United States has always had a geographical Electoral College system. A compromise of representation between small, weak states and strong, large states, and the rules of the 2016 campaign were no mystery or surprise. Yet that\u2019s only the middle-sized picture.<\/p>\n

The Big Picture is Mrs. Clinton saying she\u2019s representing the important people, the right people \u2013 even the working people \u2013 and that 2\/3rds of those people live exclusively in Blue districts on both coasts. While this is arguably true, it wasn\u2019t always true. NYC or San Francisco have always been important, but from their founding until now, places like Dayton, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, or New Orleans were considered vital, important places, places where their own specialty happened: tires or flour, steel or shipping, lumber or mining.<\/p>\n

What Happened? In a way the election was a referendum on \u201cWhat Happened?\u201d What happened to my community, my country, my area, and all the vital work those long-abandoned areas used to do, what happened to the massive GDP those areas used to contribute, and the answer is simple:<\/p>\n

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The Core Jerome Liebling May Day Union Square Park New York City 1948Dr. D. peels the American political onion to get down to what it\u2019s all about. I\u2019m impressed. He explains America better than just about anyone. Turns out, there ain\u2019t much left. So yeah, what happened? Dr. D: The news cycle runs so frenetically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19587,150,11776,19588,263,12291,11777,13924,19589,736,14509,5177,10522,19590],"class_list":["post-32981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-blue","tag-collapse","tag-core","tag-deplorable","tag-energy","tag-hillary","tag-periphery","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-red","tag-society","tag-tainter","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump","tag-whathappened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32982,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981\/revisions\/32982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}