A very accurate assessment as to why urban areas are full of liberals. The second reason cities tend to lean left, Lapin said, is because in a city you “lose touch with reality.” “Conservatism is linked to reality,” he asserted. “It is based in how the world really works. Liberalism is based on how the world would be if we could wish it was something else.” Whereas in a rural area you are connected to how the world works at its most basic level — from the phase of the moon to how food gets on the table — in a city, your “reality” becomes your monthly water bill, whether the elevator is working, and the “artificially structured” institutions around you, Lapin said. More than that, in a city you become accustomed to relying not on yourself or your neighbors, but on the “city systems.” Who cleans the sidewalk? Who provides clean water? Who gets you from point A to point B? “Everything is taken care of,” Lapin said, “so much so that you relinquish your independence with things like transport and security.”
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:28:06 +0000
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