"The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities." I think it is possible you underes

"The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities." I think it is possible you underestimate how much manufacturing happens outside urban areas. Your argument about 'how we need each other' has a point. Does that mean I get to vote on how you run your trains, down there in Big City, USA?