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Is everyone supposed to move a town over? Two towns, three? Is there housing for that? Services? Jobs? Or are we also expecting some kind of magic pixie dust to

Is everyone supposed to move a town over? Two towns, three? Is there housing for that? Services? Jobs? Or are we also expecting some kind of magic pixie dust to pick all these people up and move them all and everything be okay? And how does voting solve the problem? Who's putting what propositions forward? How does voting magically solve tax shortfalls, a lack of capital, deficits, state-wide or nation-wide political bullshit? How does voting create pharmacies, much less bring in people to staff them? The point isn't that there's an easy solution. The point is, saying "just move" is as ridiculous and unrealistic as "just change our economic structure". There is no easy solution. But that also doesn't mean we should abandon our people because we don't want to deal with hard problems.

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> Is everyone supposed to move a town over? No, only the people who want to. The people who want rugged individualism stay rugged. > And how does voting solve the problem? They vote in representatives who will enact change through federal, state, and local governments. There probably aren’t many candidates like that currently because the electorate demands candidates far to the right of that, but that could change. > But that also doesn't mean we should abandon our people because we don't want to deal with hard problems. Who’s abandoning them? They asked for small government and unchecked corporate power. Everyone on the left wants to deal with these hard problems, but you can’t force it on them.