Ep. 158 - Is Liberalism an Infectious Disease?

Exploring  the circumstances that shape wildly different political perspectives  and how this is impacting our current political discourse.

A Philosophical Exposition on Political Circumstance

There  is a particularly interesting dichotomy in political perspectives that  falls along the line between rural small town living and the hustle and  bustle of big city metropolitan life. I'm sure that this is obvious to  everyone on both sides and there is certainly no shortage of stereotypes  slung both ways. It's the classic us versus them, as "ignorant hicks"  square off with the "academic elites" in every political cycle.

Country  folk scoff at the educated idiots who "don't know their ass from a hole  in the ground," while the city folk causally dismiss the inbred  deplorables who "cling to their guns and bibles."

But I want to step beyond this bickering banter and examine why people on each side think so differently. I'd like to think it might  stimulate some conversation between the two sides, but I'm not that  naive. People caught up in the big city bustle are simply too busy to  listen to a peasant like me, precisely because I lack the pedigree that signals to them the need to pay attention.

But it would be foolish not to listen...

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