> Ask yourself if you think you just said is empathatic towards people in rural America? It's not a matter of empathy. There are laws of economics at play. The

> Ask yourself if you think you just said is empathatic towards people in rural America? It's not a matter of empathy. There are laws of economics at play. The free market chooses the most competitive products and the most competitive products are made in economic centers. Capitalism favors cities. These economic forces are forces of nature, and opposing them is like opposing the laws of physics. Now, the government can step in to pump money into rural areas in various ways (direct investment, tax credits, etc.), to make their products more competitive. But that's unsustainable, and once you turn on the spigot you can't turn it off without hurting people even more. You want to know what it looks like when the government makes a determination on which areas are going to make which things, market competition be damned, for social reasons? It looks like the Soviet Union. We live in some very weird times if Republicans are getting elected to promote Soviet economic policy in America.