[dvdhnt]

Living in Chattanooga, and watching as TN politics continue to leave me dumbfounded, I've come to believe that no matter where you are in this country, rural is rural and urban is urban. Upstate NY is just like rural TN. Sure, the state government seems to be more liberal, but it has many scandals and the same political sleaze as TN.

In the end, the best thing we can do is to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from government intervention, focus on local politics, and take control of our own consumption i.e. we can't rely on the government to do what's best for our children.

We should use these high paying remote jobs to buy nice homes with lots of space and access to good schools and healthcare. The rest of it will sort of work itself out.

And if we're being honest, climate change will get us before the government here can /shrug

[specialist]

Please clarify. Is the govt intervention advocating childhood vaccinations? Or not advocating them?

[chana_masala]

> rural is rural and urban is urban.

Not in Hawaii. We have a weird blend of Democrat in name and somewhat Conservative and Liberal function almost everywhere in the state.

[specialist]

I believe it.

I chuckle whenever any one claims Democrats are liberals. They clearly haven't been to our meetings.

The only thing Democrats agree on is opposing Republicans. And even that isn't a hard rule.

After that, policy wise, we fight about everything. No issue, or point of fact, too small to start a blood feud over.

[rayiner]

> In the end, the best thing we can do is to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from government intervention, focus on local politics, and take control of our own consumption i.e. we can't rely on the government to do what's best for our children.

We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone? (If you hadn't noticed its not 1992 and nobody is trying to teach your kids abstinence-only education anymore.)

[nieve]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/conservatives-prop...

In fact there are still places teaching abstinence-only education and I'm pretty sure that trying to keep the existence of LGBTQ people from being mentioned is not a huge step forward.

[rayiner]

Except the places that still teach that want abstinence-only education. That’s my point—the localism proposed by the grandparent poster is a good idea, but it requires everyone to chill out about how other communities choose to teach their kids. Everyone would be a lot happier if they weren’t having to look over their shoulder all the time wondering what the other side would try to foist in their kids. Having been in the receiving end of that in the 1990s I would have expected urban folks to understand that.

[dvdhnt]

> We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone?

Sorry, I don’t understand. Who is “we” and “you” in this scenario and what are “we” doing to bother “you”?

[macmccann]

In suburban Ohio public school, I was taught abstinence-only education in 2013. Could have changed since then though

[stirfish]

>And if we're being honest, climate change will get us before the government here can

The future is FEMA