Great questions.
Urban areas have the largest concentrations of society's social problems. They're stressful, are less in touch with forces of nature, and have greater concentrations of cultural depravity (subjective opinion, I know). In addition to theater, night life, Fresh Fields, and Starbucks.
Urban dwellers become consumed by it and are sensory overwhelmed, whether they admit it or not, and look for a political solution to their deep-seated feelings of instability, fear, and unhappiness. Those who can afford it go to psychiatrists and psychologists, or "life coaches."
Left-wing urban political candidates, well-trained to speak in sound bites, offer glib, quick-fix solutions that sound good in the short run but for decades have been leading us down the garden path ... |