Objectively intelligent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

A states’ rights advocate would argue this is the result of a too strong federal govt. In a more states’ rights’ oriented system, there wouldn’t be so much push to control one’s neighbors.

The down side of that is, of course, you’re neighboring state might decide it wants to jail women for having abortions. Hence the need for a robust fed govt to keep the crazy states in check.

Ya can’t win. The founders tried admirably, but it all rested on good faith. We’ve none of that since Gingrich.

That fat little fuck hacked the whole thing and infected it with a fatal virus. Amazing. Thankfully, history will nevertheless ignore him.

Dickens is English, and the hollowing out of rural areas is the result of economic changes that have been going on for centuries. An awesome book about this that no one has read is Jorwert, about a Friesian village that has been losing population for decades. You can tell the same story about many places in the US.

I don't think a strong or weak federal government has anything to do with it. That's more a story about race.