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John Howard's avatar

Very insightful article about the impact of cities on our elections. I was ready to read more. As a conservative activist in North Idaho, I tend to write off the entire south of the state along with all the big cities. We have strategies up here with which we hope to win our entire state and perhaps even win a conservative nation in our lifetime. While we have our struggles, I tend to hold a very positive long-term vision. Historically, a frontier territory has always represented the ultimate escape from the abuse of political power. Throughout human history, perhaps up until only about 150 years ago, the most daring and freedom loving people could trade the comforts and mandates of their large societies for the challenge of survival, and the risks of piracy, in frontier territory. And someday in the future, after Elon Musk gets his way and humanity becomes an interplanetary species, particularly after the unimaginable wealth that could result from robotic labor and AI, many families may once again (and from then on, forever!) have the option to escape abusive governments by relocating to frontier territory on other planets or in distant orbits. We should realize that we live today in a very anomalous landlocked period in all of human history! We survive today in a “small room” with all the crazies and authoritarians of the earth. We face threats of greater monopoly power in our lifetime, particularly if a single planetary government ever takes hold. But we must keep our dreams alive for our posterity who will live in a day when the frontier reopens forever.

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TIM DEINHARD's avatar

Democrats found a way to get their votes...its called mail in balloting...they send the ballots put early...along with vote for us ...and mail it early...etc etc...Trump lost the last election because of mail in votes...he waited far too long to start stumping...Buyden never left the basement...mail in votes were already cast before Trump even started singing his song.....mail in votes is a disaster for the u.s. city folk are too lazy to go in person. The right to vote is an honor and should be required in person unless your an invalid and can't get out...no other excuse is valid!....notice how the democrats are trying to expand mail in voting....an easy way to cheat.

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