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It's a bit more subtle than that. It's probably easier to say they dominate every field that's currently dominant. Tech is lousy with them and tech rules everything right now, but even the top end of tech is more gray tribe (and occasionally quite furry) than blue. Everything downstream of academia is theirs, but academia is currently cratering.
Energy and logistics tend to be quite red, and have always been important.
Those data centers would melt in a week or so of this scenario…
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You also forget pretty much the entire Federal bureaucracy, the commanding heights of the economy (like Larry Fink with ESG, and all the other "woke capital"), the upper ranks of the military, the topmost people in most law enforcement (and the rank-and-file, however Red, will follow whatever orders their Blue bosses give, because "I've got to think about my pension").
Same with "energy and logistics." The rank-and-file grunts might be Red Tribe, but their bosses are Blue, and Red Tribe people obey hierarchy. Plus, trying to "weaponize" those requires organization, and we Reds don't do that. We're proud of not doing organization. We are "the people who, if someone orders us to breathe, suffocate to death." I've heard some say that that anyone who talks of "organizing" is the Enemy, and that if someone shows up at his door with such talk, it doesn't matter if they've been friends for decades, he's shooting them dead on the spot.
I don't think any energy and logistics bosses I know of are openly Blue. Maybe performatively Blue. An increasing majority of them are also non-American or Indian, and those often don't map quickly onto the American Red/Blue tribe political axes.
I think the tribal nature of it comes down to tendencies on a personal level; Blue tribe is dominated by those who wish the world changed for the better/to suit them better. As the world changes for the worse, those who switch to a preservation mentality become ascendant. I don't think it's a coincidence that the fields of energy and logistics are relatively mature and lean Red, they know the difficulty in trying to maintain what already exists instead of trying to tear it all down and build something new.
And again, as mentioned, tech is lousy with Blue because tech tends to be full of people who want to change things. "Move fast and break things" is fundamentally a blue activity even if they do it for reasons other than the liberal project.
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The number of college-age Americans is going to start decreasing the next couple of years. If the US restricts the number of foreign college students, colleges are going to have to compete for these students and the bottom 5-10% will shut down. The schools that do not want to shut down will have to start being more attractive to these students and their parents. Meanwhile, conservatives are much more likely to have children than those on the far left. The combination could contribute to a pressure to at least reign in the more luxury beliefs universities have cultivated.
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They successfully forced the gray tribe in big tech to convert or submit a decade ago.
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