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0 pointsmajormajor5y ago0 comments

So it's better to have rural dwellers with an outsized voice in deciding what happens in city areas?

You also are performing a convenient geographic sidestep where suddenly "where you live" isn't the country or even the state but is really only concerned with the local. So the rest of the people who live in the nation are diminished.

Localism has led to lots of problems in American history, now we can add a shitshow of a Coronavirus response on top of the others.

The party of localism tends to be gung-ho about that huge federal military operation... yet refuses a necessarily-similar intervention in a pandemic.

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nitrogen5y ago

You paint the not-city with way too broad a brush, and nowhere did I say that people outside of cities should control the city.

But you are literally advocating for subjugation without representation. The opposite of localism you describe is imperialism/colonialism.

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