That seems like a wild thing to say (let alone believe). Something like 80% of Americans live in cities. "You can't have a moral vision - religious or secular - in America unless you find a way to exclude most Americans" is maybe not the incisive mic-drop you intended. You have a set of things you don't like, which you call "depravity", …
That seems like a wild thing to say (let alone believe). Something like 80% of Americans live in cities. "You can't have a moral vision - religious or secular - in America unless you find a way to exclude most Americans" is maybe not the incisive mic-drop you intended. You have a set of things you don't like, which you call "depravity", and have decided that the group of people responsible for those bad things happening is "people who live in cities". Not a specific set of them, just aaaaalllll of them who share the characteristic of "lives in big city".
I'd say you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but this is like yeeting a baby off of a bursting dam, I can't even see where the baby is anymore
About 19% of the population lives in the 100 biggest cities, a number that is almost equal to the rural population. The balance is suburbs, exurbs and places that are adjacent to the big cities and effectively part of them. So nowhere near 80%. As always, it depends on where you draw the borders. There are more conservatives in CA than in the Mountain West combined. They are just outnumbered where they are. Any sort of split would have to make provisions for people left "behind enemy lines". Protections against persecution, assistance with emigration etc.
That seems like a wild thing to say (let alone believe). Something like 80% of Americans live in cities. "You can't have a moral vision - religious or secular - in America unless you find a way to exclude most Americans" is maybe not the incisive mic-drop you intended. You have a set of things you don't like, which you call "depravity", and have decided that the group of people responsible for those bad things happening is "people who live in cities". Not a specific set of them, just aaaaalllll of them who share the characteristic of "lives in big city".
I'd say you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but this is like yeeting a baby off of a bursting dam, I can't even see where the baby is anymore
About 19% of the population lives in the 100 biggest cities, a number that is almost equal to the rural population. The balance is suburbs, exurbs and places that are adjacent to the big cities and effectively part of them. So nowhere near 80%. As always, it depends on where you draw the borders. There are more conservatives in CA than in the Mountain West combined. They are just outnumbered where they are. Any sort of split would have to make provisions for people left "behind enemy lines". Protections against persecution, assistance with emigration etc.