The question of democracy

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(03-15-2018, 01:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, my usual rants on this topic end up in me talking about how we have the oldest written constitution in the world still in use and that I'm not sure it's something we should be proud of. Yadda yadda. I'm in favor of a new constitutional convention to either start from the ground up or get some serious amendments going. So that is more of the ideas to which I was referring.

And I appreciate the pedantic comment.

Maybe I've just missed these posts, but I don't find this type of discourse questioning the founders' views very much in mainstream media, and probably not even a whole lot more here. So, I would tell you to start and keep going, until we tell you to "pipe down you pedantic policy peddler"  .

Quote:Harrisonburg is a blue island in a sea of red. We are the closest thing to urban between Winchester and Roanoke, and that's not saying much. The whole valley is very rural and it can be a different world for people. Hell, when people come over from central Virginia they are kind of amazed, especially when they hit the Radford area. 


A conference I sometimes go to moves around between the different state schools. I am hoping to go to the one in the fall, which is in Radford.

Not to necessarily take this thread in another direction, but I've wondered on occasions (maybe it's my ignorance showing), what exactly drives the economy in the rural areas of Virginia or for that matter midwestern states, as I'm sure there is a lot of commonality in the demographics there? Is the majority of the economy based on farming? Something else that I just haven't thought about? For instance, in the SW part of VA, there's VA tech, and some factories near Christiansburg, but are these mostly the exception in a sea of farms or is the rural economy driven by something I haven't even thought of?