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Oddly enough, a lot of nice shit comes from the cities and otherwise non-rural areas. Also the countryside is boring as goddamn, and not really setup to make a lot of neat junk. Maybe farmers could strike or something or try to exert power via threatening food supplies, but then they got barely anything to make their lives pleasant and a majority of the country's population is pissed off at them and considerably more capable of fielding more direct repercussions.

That's not even getting into the flat fact that if it really came to it, cityfolk could just break off some people, build up the necessary machinery, and replace them. We don't need even remotely as many farmers as we used to to maintain the agriculture output we do.

Or all the other stuff. Long story short, though, is that there's not nearly enough farmers nor do they have even remotely sufficient capability to defend themselves from repercussions of trying to really screw people in more developed areas for it to really be an option. And even beyond that many of them aren't quite fucked in the head enough to think trying to starve their countrymen and distant family is a good idea. All sorts of other stuff, really. Agrarian revolution was a pipe dream several generations ago, when it comes right down to it.

From labor day, smj, not up to. Tracks from september 5th till november 7th.

And yeah, last I checked it was over a million, with the continued potential to further widen a bit, I think. Though checking it does look like it might be a bit under, now. It's kinda' hard to tell because all these bastards are continuing the voting day behavior of not bloody agreeing with each other aarrrgh

Well, if it helps any, you at least gave the right advice. Communication keeps ships afloat, the lack sinks them.

... well, yes, which is why early, mail-in, and absentee voting is a thing. In most states, anyway. There's a lot of decent reasons for folks to not be able to vote, but not being able to get off work on election day generally isn't exactly sufficient by itself. Pretty sure there's either a federal or pervasive state law mandating businesses give their workers at least a couple hours off to vote, too, for all m'totally aware how much of an actual (non)option that is in a lot of cases.

Not to say we couldn't do a hell of a lot more to make things easier on folks, but there's usually at least something of an attempt by states to give people an alternative. If the voter actually cares enough to use them, anyway.

Then you put another one in so you can kick it.

Yeah, I'm thinking four to eight years after trump's gone where it's actually someone bannon tier running for POTUS and folks like duke aren't just trying to gain notable footholds, or during where shit's going well enough not enough people refuse to look away if LGBT murder rates spike and hate crimes start rising. It's be nice in the short run but that's about it.

... how do you secretly check...?