Is condescending conservative anti-city rhetoric a bug or a feature?

[ApatheticAustrian]

Nothing new at all, but the general, global rural-urban polarization of 2016 and especially the EC-PV divide in the US highlighted this once again....

..... We hear all the time about the need to respect rural voters, to accept their values, their way of life, to understand their anger about anything and their sheer necessity to election "agents of change" like Mister Trump.

A Goal about which i, in general, agree, cause those geographical areas - even while in structural decline - won't go away, need all the help they can get, especially in times of economical change & increased competition and should concern all of us.

At the same time..... especially since the election, you can hear every day how out-of-touch big-city-inhabitants are, how far away they are mentally from the "real world" or the problems of their fellow Americans and......how outright un-american it would be, to bemoan the divide of EC/PV, cause then...... BIG CITIES WOULD DECIDE ALL ELECTIONS!!!!

Let alone the fact, that this is just wrong - the rural areas can also outvote cities in nearly every european nation - the US is not some kind of feudal place, where every state can also "collect" a specific number of inhabitants before "closing down". The people of the US are moving all the time, inside a state and between states and this is MEANT to change elections, otherwise the EC wouldn't be based on the population of each state and changed once every decade.

Life is changing, structures are changing and if more Americans want to live in cities, it should be their right without diminishing their practival voting power as some kind of "sick" power exchange. As i said above, i think it's absolutely important to improve the problems of rural America, especially in the poorest regions of Appalachia and the Mid-West, and i am - as a lefty - absolutely in favor of using federbal bucks to subsidize those in need. What i - on the other hand - detest is "subsidizing" rural areas in ways of political voting power.

A rural voter shouldn't be more important than a big city voter and just cause cities aren't looking so big on a map, rocks and trees still aren't voting and a human's life doesn't become less worthy, if there are a lot of them in one place. IMHO conservatives who are dismissing city voters, city values and the wish of urban voters for equal representation as un-constitutional or anti-rural are out of touch and not even interested in competing outside of their "safe spaces".

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[ApatheticAustrian]

the effing places where your very nation was founded are ofc real america, maybe even the most real ones.