Exploring the circumstances that shape wildly different political perspectives and how this is impacting our current political discourse.
A Philosophical Exposition on Political Circumstance
There is a particularly interesting dichotomy in political perspectives that falls along the line between rural small town living and the hustle and bustle of big city metropolitan life. I'm sure that this is obvious to everyone on both sides and there is certainly no shortage of stereotypes slung both ways. It's the classic us versus them, as "ignorant hicks" square off with the "academic elites" in every political cycle.
Country folk scoff at the educated idiots who "don't know their ass from a hole in the ground," while the city folk causally dismiss the inbred deplorables who "cling to their guns and bibles."
But I want to step beyond this bickering banter and examine why people on each side think so differently. I'd like to think it might stimulate some conversation between the two sides, but I'm not that naive. People caught up in the big city bustle are simply too busy to listen to a peasant like me, precisely because I lack the pedigree that signals to them the need to pay attention.
But it would be foolish not to listen...