Politics: The Political Divide (Urban verses Rural)

The 2020 US presidential election is over and it looks like Joe Biden will be replacing Donald Trump as the next US president.  From what I've gathered from the talking heads on network TV and the internet there is a lot of angst about our deeply divided country.  Some even talk about doing away with the Electoral College.  

When I look at the electoral results map it is blindingly painfully obvious that conservative red districts are rural, and liberal blue districts are urban.  This makes perfect sense to me so I don't get why this is so hard for the major media talking heads to understand.  A rural farmer living on a 100 acre farm by absolute necessity has to be far more self sufficient and independent than a desk jockey living in a high rise condo in a large metropolis.  Duh.  This ain't rocket science. 

If you live on a rural farm, and someone is breaking into your house in the middle of the night, you don't hide in the closet and dial 911, you grab your gun and deal with it.  Waiting an hour for the sheriff to arrive is not an option, especially if you have family.  

When you're plowing your field and your tractor breaks down you get your toolbox and start diagnosing what is wrong.  Why ?  Because waiting a week for a repairmen is not an option for your crop schedule or your wallet.

Global warming ?  That is concerning, but more concerning right now for the working rural poor are their bleeding knuckles and what their family is going to eat tonight.

So can we please stop demonizing the working rural poor who voted for less federal bureaucracy and more job security in their lives ?  Donald Trump may be an amoral self serving narcissist, but that doesn't mean everything he says is wrong.  Let's not forget there is a reason he got elected for his first term.

And regarding the Electoral College, this is the mechanism that the framers of the constitution came up with to balance out the rural state needs with the urban population focused house of representatives.  Anyone who talks about scrapping the Electoral College without some other mechanism to represent the working rural poor is risking disenfranchising the working rural poor.  That is self serving, oppressive, and potentially grounds for civil war, so uh, probably not a good idea.

So please remember, we don't all live in high rise urban condos and have high paying jobs.

Politics: Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians

• Democrats
• Get right
• The game is rigged.  
• Minimum wage is a poverty trap
• Company execs do not work 1,000,000 million times harder than their janitors but they get paid that 
• Get wrong
• Taking money from people (via taxes) with no regard for fairness or results only makes things worse
• 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'

• Republicans
• Get right
• Policies based on physical world realities instead of wishful thinking
• Get wrong
• Capitalism without regard to society/ethics is evil
• How many people has tobacco killed ?
• Capitalism has creeps cold calling senior citizens trying to talk them out of their savings

• Libertarians

• Get right
• Elegant simple clean political philosophy
• Leans toward anarchy
• If you think Anarchy works a great example of that is Afghanistan.  Please go there and see how great it works.
• Get wrong
• Unfortunately it is too simple.  
• It does not deal with the reality of large groups of people, IE 'Political Power'.
• Similar to nuclear energy political power or the power of the mob needs to be understood and carefully managed.
• The truth is that political power (power of large group of people) is even more dangerous and complex and unpredictable than nuclear energy.
• As such the rules for managing it should be very robust and well designed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government