Emily Badger at The Atlantic:
Lots of food for thought (for the thoughtful) and links to other articles that expand upon the points.
Lots of food for thought (for the thoughtful) and links to other articles that expand upon the points.
But in modern America, the men with the most land no longer wield the most power. In fact, this election appears to have been decided by those of us who live the most tightly packed together.
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As the Republican Party has moved further to the right, it has increasingly become the party of fierce individualism, of "I built that" and you take care of yourself. Cities, on the other hand, are fundamentally about the shared commons. If you live in a city and you think government and other people should stay out of your life, how will you get to work in the morning? Who will police your neighborhood? Where will you find a public park when your building has no back yard?
No thats not the reason Big cities have gone dem . The reason is greed and selfish these big cities all have large poor populations the reason cities go dem. Is to use other cities monies rather than to take care of its own . Than the cities start looking to the states and After the poor have gone threw their states money . Than these big population states steal other states money . When I was a child our whole school system was state and city run . NO gooberment our house taxes were for Schools a our car linceses were for road repair . Than the gooberment federal jumped in and destroyed it all for 10 horriable states. That have brought us to extinction
No thats not the reason Big cities have gone dem . The reason is greed and selfish these big cities all have large poor populations the reason cities go dem. Is to use other cities monies rather than to take care of its own . Than the cities start looking to the states and After the poor have gone threw their states money . Than these big population states steal other states money . When I was a child our whole school system was state and city run . NO gooberment our house taxes were for Schools a our car linceses were for road repair . Than the gooberment federal jumped in and destroyed it all for 10 horriable states. That have brought us to extinction
The hilarious part of your inane rambling is that rural red states take in more tax money than they pay out compared to blue states and guess which type of states typically have the biggest cities and which states have more rural populations?
But in modern America, the men with the most land no longer wield the most power. In fact, this election appears to have been decided by those of us who live the most tightly packed together.
I think the hilarious part of your inane rambling is that by your logic a blue state is responsible for the financial melt down of 2008.
Maybe if blue states were not crashing the economy red states wouldn't need so much federal tax money?
Red states are/were worth negative pre and post 2008. Maybe you idiots should pull yourselves up from your bootstraps and stop sucking at the federal teet so much.
LOL. This is good propaganda. "The men with the most land no longer wield power the most power".
The men with the most land are also the kind of men who own and control the media, and the media is the only reason people like you support Barack Obama. Obama has been craftily marketed to you as a savior of the poor and downtrodden by the very same wealthy landowners you think have no power. They basically dictated their choice for president to you and made you think it was your choice. It wasn't your choice. Almost all the information you had to go on with regard to Obama, and the public perception of his image, was filtered to you through the controlled, corporate media.
You've been bamboozled, pal, just like most of America has. But it's not your fault. You've been trained to let the TV do your thinking for you.
Nope, just more nonsense spewing from an irrational "what's mine is mine and what's yours is ours" lefty loon. I live in a city, and I sure as hell don't intend to hold hands in a circle and sing kumbaya while the deadbeats take my money.
"How will you get to work in the morning?" - by paying for public transportation or driving in a car that I bought via roads paid for by my tax money.
"Who will police your neighborhood?" - the cops whose salary comes from my taxes.
"Where will you find a public park when your building has no back yard?" - where the local government decides to spend my tax money to build one.
I get the impression the author is yet another ignorant feminist yuppie who never had to manage her own finances or pay her own taxes, and thus thinks all the city services and infrastructure are created by some magic fairy or the local charity.
Except there is no "left" in the US... just the moderate/right demos and the off the cliff right republicans.
I get the impression that you are a bigot.
Except for the fact that the media was more negative overall compared to Obama by far compared to Romney...
Except there is no "left" in the US... just the moderate/right demos and the off the cliff right republicans.
I get the impression that you are a bigot.
LOL. This is good propaganda. "The men with the most land no longer wield power the most power".
The men with the most land are also the kind of men who own and control the media, and the media is the only reason people like you support Barack Obama. Obama has been craftily marketed to you as a savior of the poor and downtrodden by the very same wealthy landowners you think have no power. They basically dictated their choice for president to you and made you think it was your choice. It wasn't your choice. Almost all the information you had to go on with regard to Obama, and the public perception of his image, was filtered to you through the controlled, corporate media.
You've been bamboozled, pal, just like most of America has. But it's not your fault. You've been trained to let the TV do your thinking for you.
So you're admitting that you're a socialist? Why don't you build your own damn roads and hire private security?Nope, just more nonsense spewing from an irrational "what's mine is mine and what's yours is ours" lefty loon. I live in a city, and I sure as hell don't intend to hold hands in a circle and sing kumbaya while the deadbeats take my money.
"How will you get to work in the morning?" - by paying for public transportation or driving in a car that I bought via roads paid for by my tax money.
"Who will police your neighborhood?" - the cops whose salary comes from my taxes.
So you're admitting that you're a socialist? Why don't you build your own damn roads and hire private security?
So you're admitting that you're a socialist? Why don't you build your own damn roads and hire private security?
Please tell me you're joking.In what universe does paying taxes = socialist? Last I checked, it wasn't my choice to pay them or not.
No thats not the reason Big cities have gone dem . The reason is greed and selfish these big cities all have large poor populations the reason cities go dem. Is to use other cities monies rather than to take care of its own . Than the cities start looking to the states and After the poor have gone threw their states money . Than these big population states steal other states money . When I was a child our whole school system was state and city run . NO gooberment our house taxes were for Schools a our car linceses were for road repair . Than the gooberment federal jumped in and destroyed it all for 10 horriable states. That have brought us to extinction
Please tell me you're joking.
YOU CHOSE TO LIVE IN A CITY. If you don't like it, get out. Lots of people working in the city don't live in the city. By staying in the city, you are choosing to be part of a socialist system.
Please tell me you're joking.
YOU CHOSE TO LIVE IN A CITY. If you don't like it, get out. Lots of people working in the city don't live in the city. By staying in the city, you are choosing to be part of a socialist system.
By living in the USA one "chooses" to live in a "socialist" system, city or not.
That's like saying a woman "chooses" to be raped by walking down a dark alley, or a person "chooses" to be extorted by living in a Mafia-controlled neighborhood.
Logic fail!