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While I spent last week fretting over what was wrong, The Stranger came up with some answers. I really like it. I really like it. Urbanism as a political identity. It has a strong base, it reflects the realities of the demographics, it focuses on important things, it's self-perpetuating (a platform of improving city infrastructure to lure more people to the cities is brilliant), it has strong rhetorical potential. And it doesn't mean snivelling over to the right. Until someone comes up with something better, I'm going with this.

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The Stranger's cover and related article stood out to me. That's how I've been feeling, but not how I want to feel. For all I seem to practice it, I really don't enjoy the us-vs-them mentality, and it rather saddens me that my country of birth is so divided. Romantic fuzzy-headedness of me, almost certainly.

Nor does isolationist urbanism fix the ideological problems with Red America. If we, in our nice little progressive cocoons, diverge further and further from life and society in the rest of the nation, but fail to secure a real majority, we will still ultimately have to put up with more Bushes for leaders