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Good luck getting food to the table when "those backwards rural folk" stop feeding the arrogant urban fools who are so keen on that Farm to Table gig.
A true expression of "biting the hand that feeds them"
I rest my case
And what would the farmers do if they lost the immense market that the urban population provides? And all of the creature comforts that fom living in a largely urbanized society, even if you don't live in a city yourself? Rural and urban...each relies on the other to lead the most prosperous and fulfilling lives possible.
Brain drain is a serious issue for a large percentage of rural rural areas. In the rural area I lived in there was much discussion of it's ill effects on the area and what could be done to counteract it.
Why would an educated person live in a rural area among Trump supporters. It's almost like natural selection.
And what would the farmers do if they lost the immense market that the urban population provides? And all of the creature comforts that fom living in a largely urbanized society, even if you don't live in a city yourself? Rural and urban...each relies on the other to lead the most prosperous and fulfilling lives possible.
Rural farmers will be left to barter among themselves while global markets complete for urban US dollars. IMO the election of Trump is the beginning of what will be the Balkanization of the U.S.
Rural farmers will be left to barter among themselves while global markets complete for urban US dollars. IMO the election of Trump is the beginning of what will be the Balkanization of the U.S.
How silly.
The world has 2.5 Billion people which it can't feed and millions more are being born every day. American farmers, the most efficient and productive food producers on the planet, have nothing to worry about.
Yet for the most part people still don't have to lock their doors and live in fear for their lives like they do in ghettos and barrios.
The vast majority of people living in metros do not live in barrios or ghettoes, and the overwhelming majority of city residents live out their lives without being personally affected by violent crimes. You hear about the exceptions. And in the rural area i moved from there is now a major issue with thefts and burglaries due to the drug epidemic, which didn't used to be the case.
I do because I can't afford to move without a job lined up first and 95% of employers will only consider local candidates. I would love to move to a liberal urban area but it just isn't possible at this point in my life.
And you are wrong about the EC too. EC does not represent voters. It represents population as spelled out in the US Constitution. It's very fair.
Theoretically parliaments would have members from equal numbers of citizens. That is how the Canadians start out and then they mess around with it to provide slightly out of balance representation to certain provinces and territories. It is however much more balanced than the US EC.
Nothing particularly "fair" about the EC. It was originally conceived as a brain trust to actually determine the President and was later redefined as a weighed voting system providing unreasonable power to low population states for no good reason.
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