The Hard to Swallow Pill About City Dwellers

My good friend Jason Smith wrote this, and I am sharing it here with his permission.

Hard to swallow pill:

Any weak person can exist in a city. That’s why cities are generally the liberal concentrations of any given state. People not strong enough to live by their own means, flock to the safety, and welfare culture of those socialist landscapes. 

Things are easy. A store on every corner, call for a car, call for food, call for an ambulance, call for the police. Ride a train, a subway, city bus, a shuttle bus, or walk a few blocks. Live in a politically active city, and the government comes to your door offering money, food, shelter; need a phone? Here you go, we take care of you; don’t forget to vote democrat. 

No, I’m serious. Weaker people are generally concentrated in urban areas. Those that cannot survive on their own, those that need the safety net of a thousand politicians and programs. 

Those city dwellers are brought up in an environment that encourages them to believe that they are the enlightened ones, and that rural citizens are their lesser. 

Well, here’s the deal, any rural person could move to the city and thrive, but can we say the same for an urbanite suddenly “on their own” somewhere in rural America? 

Can the IT specialist, sipping his latte, if dropped into the wilderness, suddenly summon the skills needed to survive completely on his own? 

Drop me off naked in the wilderness, and when you come back in a year, I’ll invite you into my warm cabin for a nice salad, baked potato, a steak, and a glass of whiskey afterward; on the rocks if you wish? I could put on a peach cobbler for later if you’d like?

How many urban dwellers know how to feed their family without a store? Get water without a faucet? Provide shelter for their family without a contractor and construction crew? What if threatened with physical violence, and 911 isn’t an option? 

Most of what an urbanite “knows” about the real world, wouldn’t be available to them without electricity and WiFi; and that’s a fact. 

Cities get their food from rural areas, their fuel from rural areas, their lumber, hell; everything. 

But what do rural people get from the cities? More taxes? More infringing laws? Residual crime waves? What? 

Never forget who needs who. Urbanites need rural America to survive, while rural America would actually thrive without the drains of the urban liabilities. 

But what do I know, I’m just a guy from a little ag town.