• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    In all honesty, that should change as well. I don’t think that’s doing any good, either. It gives people with completely backward and insane ideas the impression that their positions should be on equal footing with normal people’s ideas.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      60 minutes ago

      I am not trying to invalidate anyone’s ideas.

      But rural voters and urban voters have different needs. Neither is ‘wrong’.

      For example- the urban voter might have a lot of gangland gun violence, so they push for strong gun control.
      The rural voter OTOH has a police response time of 20+ minutes or more, and real threats to life and property from four-legged predators so they want real useful guns to defend themselves.

      Neither is wrong for pushing their particular needs. They just don’t acknowledge the other exists.

      Quite frankly if you’re going to say urban people are ‘normal people’ and rural people are ‘backward and insane’, then I’m quite in favor of reducing your own influence (and I say that as a liberal voter and registered Democrat). Good government recognizes that one size doesn’t fit all.