Originally Posted by
Tx_Aggie
That's no joke. I've lived in Appalachia for going on 8 years now. I was shocking how much soul crushing poverty there is here once you get outside of the towns that still some sort of manufacturing or tourist attraction, or the occasional college town. There's a lot of truth in the idea that you must be willing (and financially able) to leave if you want to have any sort of successful career.
When you start discussing this with folks, you find a lot of them have the 'well, they just need to move and get better jobs' mindset without having a clue as to how difficult that might be for some people.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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