XPost: alt.conspiracy   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:24:01 +0200, D wrote:   
   >   
   >> Ahh... the power of a smaller town, where nuggets like that actually   
   >> spread around and it is more difficult for politicians and civil   
   >> "servants" to hide in plain sight.   
   >>   
   >> That's why democracy on a national level breaks down. Too many people   
   >> too little accountability.   
   >   
   > A state of 330 million is way to big. I won't even call it a nation since   
   > a nation implies a common culture, ethic, language, and so forth. I am not   
   > a civic nationalist by any means.   
   >   
   > The differences become apparent even on a local level. This is a blue   
   > county surrounded by red neighbors. I don't know if the county 15 miles to   
   > the south even had a mask mandate but if it did nobody paid attention to   
   > it. for that matter even within the county the city is blue and the rest   
   > of the county is red.   
   >   
   > An author, Malka Older, wrote a trilogy where the world consisted of   
   > centenals, areas of 100,000 people that shared a common set of values. If   
   > you didn't like the way the one you were in was run, move to an acceptable   
   > one. Two adjacent centenals might have a completely different system of   
   > government.  Mninmal controls were in place to prevent inter-centenal   
   > aggression.   
      
   Interesting book. I'm not a nationalist but I do acknowledge that   
   nationalism or having a common culture, to a certain extent, is good for   
   the stability of society.   
      
   It's an interesting thought to imagine that we split land areas today   
   along political/ideological lines, republican/democrat, white/black etc.   
   How many subdivisions would we have to go through before the remaining   
   society would become stable and harmonius?   
      
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