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
How am I saying that at all? The only person even attempting to steer the argument that way is you.
No cities are required for modern technology. Precisely zero of the current infrastrucutre would magically disappear if the (most or even all) populations of the large cities did.
At this point, you're glowing because of both the heavy metals in your diet AND from the obvious left-wing rhetoric. "HURR DURR SMALL TOWN PEOPLE ARE ALL BACKWARDS AND DUMB HURR"
Not weak at all. Electricity does not require urban areas in order to be produced, and is more than likely not predominantly produced in urban areas.
Same with the internet, etc. The only person glowing here is you, but not because of any implied Fed involvement. More like from all the heavy metals in the paint you swilled down as a kid.
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
Please show me the city that has oil rigs or coal mines downtown.
How am I saying that at all? The only person even attempting to steer the argument that way is you.
No cities are required for modern technology. Precisely zero of the current infrastrucutre would magically disappear if the (most or even all) populations of the large cities did.
At this point, you're glowing because of both the heavy metals in your diet AND from the obvious left-wing rhetoric. "HURR DURR SMALL TOWN PEOPLE ARE ALL BACKWARDS AND DUMB HURR"
Weak argument. Yes, the country living folks do need the urbanites if they want internet, electricity, etc. Lousy response, glowie.
Not weak at all. Electricity does not require urban areas in order to be produced, and is more than likely not predominantly produced in urban areas.
Same with the internet, etc. The only person glowing here is you, but not because of any implied Fed involvement. More like from all the heavy metals in the paint you swilled down as a kid.