Could be true (*) But none of that justifies giving the tiny numbers of people who live in truly rural American outsize power over everyone else. (*) but prob

Could be true (*) But none of that justifies giving the tiny numbers of people who live in truly rural American outsize power over everyone else. (*) but probably not ... I'm a rural dweller and my own and my neighbors' dependence on our cities is pretty absolute. Most rural dwellers these days are not subsistence farmers.