Posted on 04/11/2015 12:31:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No, it’s sane vs. insane.
Probably, actually must be somehow.
Their kids on the school bus are proud to tell other kids they get free breakfast and lunch. They get all their food on welfare because my teen oldest boy works as a cashier so we know. One daughter was telling the neighborhood kids that her dad signed up for college but does not go but got a pick up truck,. Not sure how that works. The house they have rented has gone to the worst looking house in the neighborhood. Junk outside, windows dirty, blinds all broke for their dog and all they ever do is sit outside smoking.
When they first moved here they kept calling the Sheriff dept about they are being racially harassed in their words “ I am white married to a black guy living in the south”
Agreed
It’s because it’s all been orchestrated and corrupt to fit the design. The only fair way to to count one vote for each voter. Whoever gets the majority of those votes wins.
It’s simple, basic and extremely hard to manipulate, sway or corrupt.
It’s why we don’t have that system.
James Wilson suggested that at the Constitutional Convention. He couldn't sell it to Madison or Hamilton, so he invented the Electoral College instead.
Meanwhile, several states have legislation which would afford their electoral votes to whoever wins the popular election without regard to who actually wins the vote in the state itself!
South too... Just a little further...
When the democrats were in control of Michigan they were pushing the interstate voting compact. Fortunately its dead meat here now.
America would have become socialist 70 years ago with direct election of the president. In one way, you are correct; you can’t cheat an honest electorate or ultimately protect people from themselves.
The fading cities of upstate New York are relics of an age when those locations were actually important in industry. Cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton became industrial hubs because they could supply water for industrial processes and were located along navigable waterways and/or major railroads.
Once those assets were no longer necessary to support industry (access to cheap electricity and major ports is more important to most industries today), a lot of those cities really lost the "advantage of place" they once had. It's a scene you see repeated all over the Northeast and through the Rust Belt states.
Agree with that; my town is about 87% conservative but we are overwhelmed by the big cities around us. We are in California, but Sacto, SanFran and LA are the big wellfare districts with the votes.
It is not. It is constitutionalist versus progressive.
If that predominates city v country, fine, but it is stereotyping.
Red areas get to vote for one of the chosen.
JMHo
The Civil War was similarly arguably state versus country.
But I also think that citizens would like to make the Constitution work if they were brought up to speed on what it’s supposed to do; divide state and federal government powers, the states, not the constitutionally humbled feds, having the lion’s share of government power to serve the people.
Seriously, conservatives need to find a way to thrive in the cities. We may have to establish our own neighborhoods in every metropolitan area.
There are big changes going on in Detroit. Downtown is booming mostly due to big money like Dan Gilbert and Quicken and the hipsters who have a libertarian bent. Lots of construction going on after the creditors got prime real estate as part of their bankruptcy settlement.
A while back I watched a Detroit chamber of commerce conference online and a lot of the outside business interests were talking about the rising cost of doing business elsewhere VS Detroit. They’re also concerned that many other cities are heading down the same path that got Detroit to where it is. They seemed to think that Detroit will be in much better shape in the future than many other cities.
The closer to downtown the better it is.
Every major city is THE cancer that sucks the life-blood from surrounding areas. It needs to change! By district or even county would be a good start.
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