The problem is that the left wants EVERYONE to live in the cities. The fact that cities aren’t the best place to raise a familiy never seemed to occur to the left, or more likely, they saw it as another form of enforced equality.
“The problem is that the left wants EVERYONE to live in the cities”
You hit the nail on the head with the above statement. Look at Russia. Everyone lives in cities, cramped in block house buildings. A co worker married a Russian fellow from outside Moscow. After she got married, he wanted to take her to Russia and introduce her to his family. She told me stories that would make your head spin. His family, an average one, lived in what we would consider, project housing, in other words, government subsidized housing. Ugly as sin, amidst concrete parking lots. She said that the local government controlled the water supply and that once every 6 months or so the government workers came out and had to clean the pumps or something, so they shut all the water off in the area to do so. My friend couldn’t flush the toilets or get fresh water unless you went outside to a local pump and hauled up to the apartment. Because these were government employees, they had no urgency in finishing their job and the water remained turned off for the entire day. No one seemed to mind it though; they just accepted it as routine. I recall watching a travel channel program about Russia, and it seemed the only people that lived in the country were retired big wigs from the Communist ruling class. It is very frightening because it is obvious that if you live in rural areas, you have more opportunity to be self sufficient, and less in need of government intrusion. Not so with urban dwellers. We should be aware of this and take it to heart.