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Imagine No Big Cities
Townhall.com ^ | August 24, 2021 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 08/24/2021 4:51:45 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/24/2021 4:51:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Americans mask:

Let us imagine a world free of lying malicious self-serving
preening treasonous politicians ... and their schemes.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 4:55:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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Here’s an idea:

Every state gets 2 senators, as is the current model. These 2 senators are elected by people living in non-urban areas.
The three largest cities in each state get to elect a single senator who will (theoretically) focus on urban concerns for the entire state.

Rural areas are empowered.
Urban areas are weakened.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 4:56:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: Diogenesis

“It’s easy if you try…”


4 posted on 08/24/2021 4:56:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

YESTER-YEAR - Magnificent Cities

TODAY - Democrat Plantations


5 posted on 08/24/2021 4:57:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Some things are so stupid and idiotic only a liberal could believe them.)
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It is sound strategy to encourage leftists to gather in the anthills aka big cities. Should CW-II actually come about, these places can be cut off from food, water, energy, and other supplies. When the locals start eating each other they won’t have time for CRT, communism and other failed ideology.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 4:57:52 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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“CRT, communism and other failed ideology.”

No dystopian literature or ideas gives any of that a second thought. In a future wasteland, those would be some of the least useful things out there.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 5:02:13 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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I’ve imagined this scenario before, and it is glorious. I live in one of the big cities ruining my state and am working on getting out.

I only hope that it can hold together another year or two so that I can make good on my escape.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 5:03:43 AM PDT by Ibi Libertas in Veritate
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“The mobs of great cities add just so much to support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body,” Jefferson wrote.


9 posted on 08/24/2021 5:03:54 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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Big cities is where most of the democRATS are. Nuff said. /spit.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 5:05:06 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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Exactly. I am a huge supporter of sanctuary cities, laws that protect criminals, junkies, “homeless” (urban campers).

It’s the flypaper effect. They draw society’s worst to limited areas, and keep them there, thus freeing up the rest of the country side, where decent people may live.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 5:06:59 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Kaslin

Not just the official city, but the entire metropolitan area. So Chicago would include 6 counties: Cook, DuPage, McHenry, Lake, Will and Kane. And there would be a few counties from Illinois that would go into metropolitan St. Louis. Illinois could become the Land Of Lincoln again.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 5:08:50 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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Big cities (Detroit, Milwaukee, Philly, Chicago come to mind) have been engaged in massive vote fraud for decades. They have illegally tipped the balance of power in Washington in the favor of the Left on numerous occasions and are a partial explanation why this country has been drifting leftward for so long.

Big cities have been destroying this country for a very long time.

13 posted on 08/24/2021 5:10:27 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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They draw society’s worst to limited areas, and keep them there, thus freeing up the rest of the country side, where decent people may live.

It is ironic though--cities used to be the center of civilization designed to keep the barbarians out.

Today they are under the control of the barbarians so civilization can only survive in the hinterlands.
14 posted on 08/24/2021 5:13:48 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Or we could simply repeal the 17th amendment and let the governors send Senators as state emissaries like they used to do.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 5:16:43 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Kaslin

In the Midwest, the opposite is happening - In the last census, rural counties are losing population to urban counties.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 5:24:45 AM PDT by EC Washington
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Big cities in the USA are a disaster. They are run by democrats, who populate them with unproductive people who are taken care of by the state, using money from the productive people who don’t live in the cities.

The productive ones get out of the city as fast as possible out of fear for their lives.


17 posted on 08/24/2021 5:25:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: americas.best.days...

“... thus freeing up the rest of the country side, where decent people may live.”

Until HUD or some other government entity gets the bright idea to create some program which will house them in the suburbs with the decent and working people (never in Martha’s Vineyard, Pacific Heights or similar affluent neighborhoods, though).


18 posted on 08/24/2021 5:52:44 AM PDT by Cecily
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Those states would lose a major tax base. I have a house in Philly and if you include the school financing, parking system management, septa, food stamps, welfare, unemployment ins outflow, section 8 housing, Philly might be a net taker of taxes.


19 posted on 08/24/2021 6:05:40 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: ClearCase_guy

A better idea with state governments is to have an even number of state Senators for each county (usually 1 or 2). That distribution would blunt the outsized influence of the cities in the state legisl00tures.


20 posted on 08/24/2021 6:08:46 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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