Political thought

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I wonder if what the internet has done really is not creating a global village so much as a global city. If Republicans really are traditionally rural - a point I could debate - they are also people who almost never occupy public spaces. The closest thing to a corner cafe in most of these Appalachian towns is a Burger King close to the main road. People socialize in church and don't even drink in public. Public schools fail the children of the intelligentsia precisely because they have turned into the front line of getting poor children indoors and fed; everyone over a certain income goes to the Christian Academy. If Democrats are from cities, maybe it's right that they become Democrats by sharing public spaces with other people - most of whom, if the cities I've been to are any indication, they hate on sight. Maybe being online - constantly sharing your space with millions of people, whether you want them or not - has a similar socializing influence, in which the subject becomes terrified with the state of the general education and wishes to fund social programs.

Just a thought.