Why are "conservatives" so attracted to centuries old rural living, and if so attracted, why are you on the internet, using electricity, and maybe farming using gasoline or diesel powered equipment built in urban environments?
Conservative is not synonymous with Luddite. What you're espousing is basically depopulation on the scale of the worst of the globalists.
Wanting "everyone" to live in a place like that does imply exactly that. Or you're saying that everyone who wants to live like that is dependent on the good graces of the urban dwellers. A very weak argument. Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals.
No one's "wanting everyone to live in a place like that". That's you strawmanning.
Even then, wanting people to live in small areas still does not imply that one wants to forsake modern technology. None of those things you mentioned require large, populous urban areas to be manufactured, nevermind the utter lack of evidence that the majority of those things are even manufactured in major urban areas.
"Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals."
Why should they when the "country living folks" do not require the urbanite in their lives whatsoever? Why should they put forth effort into something they do not need?
So you're staying that conservatives are happy without electricity or fossil fuels (Maybelle, hook the plow up to yourself, and let's get that field ready.) The country living folks would either expire or be back to subsistence farming in no time without the modern world. Only fools and glowies would try to argue that anything even remotely related to current tech can exist in such a world. Utterly laughable and completely antithetical to the science of economics
Why are "conservatives" so attracted to centuries old rural living, and if so attracted, why are you on the internet, using electricity, and maybe farming using gasoline or diesel powered equipment built in urban environments?
Conservative is not synonymous with Luddite. What you're espousing is basically depopulation on the scale of the worst of the globalists.
They aren't attracted to that. Wanting to live in a small area does not equate to wanting to forsake modern technology etc.
Wanting "everyone" to live in a place like that does imply exactly that. Or you're saying that everyone who wants to live like that is dependent on the good graces of the urban dwellers. A very weak argument. Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals.
The only one presenting a weak argument is you.
No one's "wanting everyone to live in a place like that". That's you strawmanning. Even then, wanting people to live in small areas still does not imply that one wants to forsake modern technology. None of those things you mentioned require large, populous urban areas to be manufactured, nevermind the utter lack of evidence that the majority of those things are even manufactured in major urban areas.
"Maybe country living folks should put more effort into explaining why the two should be working together towards common goals."
Why should they when the "country living folks" do not require the urbanite in their lives whatsoever? Why should they put forth effort into something they do not need?
So you're staying that conservatives are happy without electricity or fossil fuels (Maybelle, hook the plow up to yourself, and let's get that field ready.) The country living folks would either expire or be back to subsistence farming in no time without the modern world. Only fools and glowies would try to argue that anything even remotely related to current tech can exist in such a world. Utterly laughable and completely antithetical to the science of economics
Weak argument. Yes, the country living folks do need the urbanites if they want internet, electricity, etc. Lousy response, glowie.
For the same reason that wealthy elites are attracted to living in small closed-off communities.