Why are they broke? In debt? Violent? Easy answer here folks, just look at the corruption in DC and you have your answer. The same graft, the same mismanagement, the same top-down authoritarian control. Whatever the feds do, these pockets calling themselves Seattle, Baltimore, Portland, Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Etc, do the same. They don’t resent DC, they want to be DC. Where the feds do it on a country wide level, these microcosms of legislators do on a state level. The population centers exist to control the rural areas and tell them how to live.

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