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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Society is splintering in many ways. I can’t point to all of them, but one I can see is rural poor folks being left behind. They can leave, as my immigrants forebears left Eastern Europe. Or they can stay and have limited but perhaps happy lives. I am advocating telling them, “We can’t help you. But we won’t hurt you. And your debts are cancelled, and we don’t expect taxes from you. Have a nice run in your off the grid lives. Or move and join us. But we’re not your enemies. We don’t want to tell you how to live. And we don’t want you to try to tell us how to live. We want to coexist and, if it’s best, leave you alone. You make the call.”
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This rural-places-are-dying-and-cities-are-happening thing has been happening since forever. Dickens got several novels out of it. The American twist on it is to give each rural voter as many Senators as the City of Los Angeles, although this is not so new, either.
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