alt Hacker NewsDeindustrialization has hollowed out most American cities outside of major cities, and the corresponding anti globalism tantrum contributed to the current political situation. Because of the apportionment of House and Senate seats, these people hold most Americans hostage with their disproportionate voting power, and paying a ransom seems better than the alternative we are living through.
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giraffe_lady • today at 5:44 PM
Rural and semi-exurban people consider themselves a nation¹ that the urban majority are not members of. And now they want that nationalism socialized. If you see what I mean.
¹: by the formal denotation in sociology, which they agree with but not describe it that way if asked.
Nope. Globalism has made America richer than pretty much any nation in the existence of human history.
The election of leaders who prioritize the distribution of wealth from the poorest to the richest rather than vice versa has hollowed out rural America.
And rural America disproportionately votes for such leaders.