Honestly, if you want a complacent, content enough population, make sure they have access to good jobs, affordable housing abd health care and day care and good educational opportunities for their families. And roads in decent shape, clean air and water. In other words, security, with hope for the future.
yes, and both rural people and urban people should want this and they should be United in their desire to have political candidates who address these things. And yet it seems that the majority of Republicans are not thinking this way.
I’m quite happy to consider the reasoned political opinions of those whose values may differ from mine but I almost never hear that from the right. Perhaps that is media bias at play, and the voices of those who are reasonable are getting drowned out.
I think a lot of it is the voices that get amplified by media.
But honestly I wasn’t talking about listening to and respecting or agreeing with formulated political opinion, per se. I was really just talking about looking fir common, shared values,
I don’t know much about the political climate in your country, or how much there is a n urban/rural divide. In the US, at least, it seems as though differences are amplified and I think this is deliberate.
In the US, I think that most people agree on the ideals of personal freedom ( within certain limits), hard work, love of country, honesty, integrity, love of country, equal rights for all.
We just don’t necessarily agree on how to achieve these ideals. In the past, I think there was a much greater acceptance of the fact that we shared those values, even where we disagreed with the particulars. Now, there’s very much more of an us vs them. -!: politics seem bent on wedge politics. I think this is deliberate—it’s attention —and dollar grabbing, for one thing. I suspect that there’s more to it than that. One example would be Trump’s tenure as POTUS: He would often do something fairly outrageous that would grab a lot of attention and headlines but behind the scenes, quietly, serious stuff was going on. I’m thinking about the USPS as an obvious example but so are student loans abd destruction of the educational system, largely but not entirely through the distrust of our educational system. Same thing with our court system, the USSC being simply the most prominent. Not enough people have been paying attention to how the federal court system was packed with political Allie’s of Trump. I think there is a deliberate undermining of American trust in our institutions and it did not start with Trump. For some time now, instead of talking about flaws in our educational system, we hear how it is ‘broken,’ for example. What do we do with broken things? We throw them out.
