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> Is everyone supposed to move a town over?

No, only the people who want to. The people who want rugged individualism stay rugged.

> And how does voting solve the problem?

They vote in representatives who will enact change through federal, state, and local governments.

There probably aren’t many candidates like that currently because the electorate demands candidates far to the right of that, but that could change.

> But that also doesn't mean we should abandon our people because we don't want to deal with hard problems.

Who’s abandoning them? They asked for small government and unchecked corporate power. Everyone on the left wants to deal with these hard problems, but you can’t force it on them.



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