In post-industrial America, there really is becoming less and less reason for the rural areas of our country to continue to feed the largely welfare-inclined and/or non-wealth-creating segments of society...i.e. the cities and their service-sector/welfare-based economies.
In nearly every statewide and federal election, you can routinely count on urban areas going blue (i.e. voting for liberal policies and more TAKING from government troughs) while the rural areas largely go red. This is (to quote a liberal term)...grossly UNSUSTAINABLE.
When/as elections more frequently are turned against producers and for/towards the takers--on a regular basis--eventually, the rural areas may just stop participating in "the system" that forces them to sustain their own destruction. When that finally happens, the whole fabric of society will have to be re-adjusted.
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One way this could happen that MIGHT help is for there to be an institution of new voting rules. I have been suggesting for some time now that long-term welfare users/abusers..i.e. able-bodied people who refuse to seek work... can be made no longer eligible for the franchise.
It may also be appropriate for people to be forced to pass a basic test on the nation's founding principles and documents before being allowed to vote.
This may sound "harsh," but the alternative...i.e. open warfare, and/or total societal collapse--may prove far more harsh.
The camel can not take many more straws.