Blue States, You’re the Problem (nytimes.com)

Clickbaity title aside, this discussion makes some good points regarding states with Democratic majorities that fail to live up to their values.

The amount of illogical metaphors in media is reaching an all time high. States, and majorities of any label (blue in this case) are not something that can be tied to individual entity properties, such as “values”. A group of people can’t have a fixed value they operate on without some type of consensus occurring during the decision phase of the value. This is simply a logical fallacy based on the observation of band wagon’ing of a given group (red). Maybe blue doesn’t practice band wagon biases?

The problem is that both parties represent the interests of the wealthy.

Not this "red" team / "blue" team nonsense.

I just don't understand how HN readership can fall for this.

It literally anywhere densely populated was run by any different political party, I would love to see if that makes a difference

Paywall so I couldn’t read all of this but the premise seems sort unremarkable. Those who see it will find it so obvious as to not be worth reading about. Those who can’t see it won’t read this or hate read it and not connect the dots. “Progressive policies hurt those they intend to help.” Duh. It might as well be an article about Venezuela or the USSR. Same conversation; no true Scotsman, resistance and free speech is why the blue policies fail, etc… A tiresome discussion for both parties. When someone is in denial, trying to reason with them will accomplish nothing. A better conversation: why is communist China doing so well? Maybe the blue states could learn something from Xi.