Thursday, October 27, 2016

Dilettante's call to populate and conquer rural opposition to urban majority rule

Alec McGillis' “Go Midwest Young Hipster” seeks to moderate rural over representation in Washington by convincing young hipsters to go populate the hinterlands with their urban sensibilities and votes.  Unfortunately there is a population trend back toward the cities because of their economic and intellectual stimuli, which make this appeal futile.  For example, General Electric moved its headquarters from a rural campus in Fairfield Connecticut to Boston, Massachusetts to be close to the high tech hipsters it needs to invigorate the corporation. Taxes were not the issue because the move was to Taxachusetts, as the neighbor to the north is colloquially called.  Fairfield is suburban nevertheless too isolated to attract the young techies GE wants to work and innovate with so that intelligent hipsters will not hear the call of a political dilettante to populate and conquer rural opposition for an urban majority’s vision.

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