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To: kennedy

I think cities are infested with democrats because people who go there to live don’t want or know how to produce/provide any of the necessities of life themselves, being perfectly happy to having it all provided by someone else-I’d bet real money that about half of the people in any major city would not survive long without trucks to bring food to the store, no water coming out of the faucets, and the electrical grid down-probably would look like Venezuela...

Many of my family members still refuse to live in cities, preferring to grow food and raise livestock and own little shops instead-it makes sense to me to live where fresh food is readily available by walking out the front door, even if life is otherwise a bit hard-if everything went boom, a city would just be a place to get trapped...


56 posted on 06/25/2016 11:46:50 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

The political divide in this country is not between the rich and poor (the Democrats have at least as many billionaires as the Republicans) or between races (Democrats have at least as many racists) or even geographic. The political divide is between urban and rural.

You can confirm this by looking at a county by county map of any of the past several Presidential elections. The nation appears as a sea of red with small islands of deep blue scattered throughout the country. Liberalism is both a cause and effect of living in a large city.

If you choose to live in a large city, you want and need your government to provide you with a long list of basics for survival - everything from utilities to protection to transportation. If you choose to live in rural America, you neither want or need a lot of government services. You have a septic system for sewer, a well for water, and the police or an ambulance are up to an hour away.

For example, if you live in NYC you probably do not own a car, may not know anyone who owns a car, and cannot understand why anyone would want to. If you want to go to the store for groceries, you walk, take the subway or maybe a cab and carry a bag home with you. If you live in rural America, walking to the store for groceries is not an option. The closest store is probably 10 to 20 miles away. There is no mass transit because the population density is far too low. So once a week or once a month you make a trip to the nearest Walmart and haul back a truckload of supplies. Now thanks to the Interweb, you probably get a UPS truck coming by every week (assuming that you have dial up Internet access).

Similarly, if you live in NYC and someone breaks into your apartment in the middle of the night, the correct response is (1) barricade yourself in an interior room, (2) call 911, (3) scream “I have called the police, go away” and (4) hope that the police get there before you are raped and killed. You do not own a gun and would be afraid to use one if you did since if you miss you could hit someone in the neighboring apartment and whether you hit or miss you would be arrested for illegally owning and using a gun.

If you live in rural American and someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night the correct response is (1) shoot him, (2) call your nearest neighbor and tell them what happened, so they can put the word out to the rest of your neighbors and be on the lookout for any fleeing accomplices (3) call the sheriff and tell him what happened, (4) put on a pot of coffee, (5) wait on your porch for your neighbors to arrive, look at the body, and drink coffee with you on the porch, (6) wait an hour or more for the sheriff’s deputy to arrive (with the Justice of the Peace in tow) to take your statement and for the JP to declare, “Yep, he’s dead,” and (7) wait until morning for the local undertaker to arrive and haul off the body.


72 posted on 06/25/2016 3:40:46 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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