Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 2024-10-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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On 2024-10-23 2:56 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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If you mean “large cities”, those are in fact the backbone of your
economy. The US isn’t an agrarian society any more.
 
Why should the value of someone’s vote depend on where they live?

 
If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
happen to them?

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They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm their
crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply, no
manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to supply
feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to pay the
farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
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The whole system collapses.

Do you really think the electricity generation is done in the cities? Do you
really think seeds and fertilizer come from the cities? (Fertilizer from
what... pigeons?) Do you really think the material to build roads and the
workers who build them come from the cities? Good grief.

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be so damned clueless about
reality.

As for iron... that comes from China now. Our parasite government has
managed to all but destroy Detroit and the steel industry. What cars we
still build i the United States are done more and more in rural areas, like
the Carolinas and Tennessee. Go back to the 1940s and you might have a
point.

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