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Of course people live differently. Of course there is a contrast between rural and urban. As you point out, this is why big cities usually lean democrat, because as more people are rubbing elbows, there is a call for more regulation and protections.
However, this does nothing to shed light on what the true intentions of the founding fathers may have been, which is the same as it is for everybody else, self preservation. More than a few of our founding fathers specifically stated the need for a government that would protect propertied individuals such as themselves from the general working class. They full well knew they were the "minority".
Second, as you correctly stated, yes it would suck to have city dwellers making all the decisions for rural folk, but the electoral college does nothing to fix that. Instead, it ensures that a minority will always retain control over the majority. The pendulum has simply swung in the opposite direction. In our example, you have 500,000 people in Wyoming deciding what's best for the 50 million people in CA, so to speak.
I really think the country should be split in two. As you stated, city and rural are two completely different ways of living and wanting to be governed. The real problem is that most all those red states would collapse without the evil commie bastard blue states supporting them. This entire notion of running a government like a business, as many who were optimistic of Trump were hopeful in 2016, is totally bunk. Not all things of social value are profitable and the only reason this sorry excuse for a special interest group called the Republican party even exists in this day and age is because it is constantly tempered by the left. Mind you, I am specifically talking about Republican politicians. I will absolutely agree that theoretically diversity is important, and there are some basic Conservative tenets that are important. However, that is not what the Republican political party cares about, and it is reflected in their actual politics.
Blue states would be just fine, and probably better off. Red states would be the anglo equivalent of North Korea. As far as I'm concerned, red states should be thankful that the big city blue states even allow them to have a say in how the country is ran, as I cannot think of a singular Republican policy, program, or idea in the last 50 years that has been anything but a sugar coated giveaway to a very small interest group. I am sick and tired of reading just about every other dumbass in the Warroom bitching and moaning about CA and NY, or "the left" and how evil it is. Republican rule, when stripped of it's liberal constraints, looks like a completely backwards reactionary shitfest, so if that is how all these dorks want to live, so be it. It's not like if they were to segregate, the rest of us would miss out on any great contributions or anything.
