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Greer does a good job of Noticing the existence of the FanDuel American, but a bad job of understanding or describing him. ((The pattern of doing a great job of Noticing but a bad job of Understanding is a sight gag here))
Values are best modeled as aspirational in seeking a Red/Blue divide among normies. The important question isn't what you do, it is what you wish you did, or did more of.
Using Church attendance as a jumping off point: in a few weeks I'm going to go up to my in-law's beach house, and go to the local church for Easter Mass. Many of the people in the pews will be Easter-Christmas Catholics, who go to Mass maybe three times a year. Some of those Easter-Christmas Catholics will be liberals, and some will be conservatives; the difference will be not in how often they go to Mass but in how often they wish they went to Mass. A liberal blue triber wishes they went to church less often than they do, a conservative red triber wishes they went to church more often. The blue triber is sitting through Easter Mass thinking "I wish mom didn't drag us here, no one cares, and we have so much to do before dinner!" while the red triber thinks "I really ought to go to Mass every week, I've been trying to go but, work, and chores, and early football games, and hangovers..." The Blue Triber resents the presence of religion, no matter how minor or major the inconvenience; the Red Triber thinks religion is good and vaguely wants more of it in his life, even if he makes pretty weak excuses as to why he doesn't do it.
This pattern can be extended across many fields. The Red Triber uses pornography or OnlyFans, but thinks that the models are trash people, and might vaguely wish he didn't use it; the Blue Triber thinks the models are good people, and vaguely tries to seek out pornography that women claim they enjoy making. The Red Triber wishes he was more involved with his kids; the Blue Triber thinks single moms are just fine. The Red Triber thinks drug users are scum and is vaguely uncomfortable with them, even if he makes an exception for himself because [reasons]; the Blue Triber thinks that drugs are fine and that hallucinogens sound cool and vaguely thinks he should try them even if he himself barely drinks. The Red Triber thinks black people aren't ultimately as good as white people, even if he makes exceptions for his friends or his favorite athletes or rappers; the Blue Triber thinks Black people are as-good or better than YTs and diversity is our strength, even if he doesn't have any actual black friends. The Red Triber wishes he made more than his wife, or that she didn't work at all, and that she was more obedient and he more authoritative; the Blue Triber wishes that his wife made as much as he did, and that she didn't defer to him as much as she does.* The Red Triber who doesn't own any guns really thinks he ought to get one and totally plans to any day now; the Blue Triber that does own a gun makes a dozen weird excuses as to why he specifically likes them and offers extensive explanations of how safe he is in the storage and handling of the firearms.
To a certain extent, this is normal: humans are imperfect and moral ideals are perfect. We could probably play this game in Classical Athens with guys who wish they slept with fewer women and more boys, and guys who wish they slept with more boys and fewer women; or in Tolstoy's Russia with nobles who wish they had fewer serfs and nobles who wish they had more serfs. It's nothing special that the majority of American conservatives and liberals don't live up to their political ideals. But you can't understand people just from what they do, you do have to consider what they want to do.
*Thinking about these couplets personally: I wish I went to Mass more even though I go frequently and I wish my wife would consent to at least vaguely learn about our banking and bills instead of just depending on me to handle all money matters. C'est la vie.
Eh serious YMMV there. There’s red tribers with white supremacist ideas even if they won’t call it that(and won’t use the term ‘hbd’ either). There’s also a lot who genuinely aren’t racist. Most have a strong belief that the black community is screwed up by liberal social policies and bad culture(to be fair, African American culture is pretty bad), and that they need to move away from this. Most think making fun of blacks shouldn’t be off limits unless it’s seriously offensive or not funny. But whites are better is not a general rule.
You're mostly right. Maybe the "even" should have been reversed there.
My point is the direction of aspiration; it's red tribe to wish you interacted with fewer black and brown people regardless of how many you interact with, it's blue tribe to wish you interacted with more Black and Brown people, regardless of how many you interact with.
Neither attitude is essential to either tribe, but you can't hold the other tribe's attitude.
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