You have many "intelligent" people like Bernie who lives in big cities like NYC. They tend to be more "open-minded" so they are quicker to embrace new ideas. Like communism. The problem is that new ideas may be bad.
We may be dumber in the country. But we know that the old ways work quite well.
You see this kind of phenomenon in other countries as well. France, England, Canada. They're all similar. You get out of Toronto, London or Paris. You meet people who live in the countryside. They're not "woke".
Indeed, it is fascinating that big city folk tend, at least, to be leftist to one degree or another.
This is partly understandable from this perspective:
leftism assumes that the use of political force can “improve society” and “perfect human behavior”
indeed, one can argue that this {”substitution of the use of force for the self-respect, self-regulation, self-control, and the faith in the Divine instead of governmental power) that this is at the very core of the communist/nazi error.
At any event,
there is some need for more regulation or limitation on individual behavior if crowded large cities are to survive without the habituants breaking out in utter violence. Any undergraduate sociology student knows this from laboratory rats. You crowd them too tightly in their cages and they start attacking each other.
So, maybe there’s some need for some extra governmental limitations on individual liberties in crowded cities? It is at least a discussion topic.
Having allowed for that possibility, the core problem remains the misguided faith in governmental compulsion instead of self-regulation of behavior, the self-regulation that has traditionally been guided by Judeo=Christian moral teachings in our society.
anyway this is my thought of the evening. your mileage may differ, have at it!
cheer,