The greatest obstacle to localism etc in modern USA is that people are myopically committed to the idea that it only works in small towns
local production of goods, local control of government, promotion of local history/culture/identity, etc
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people think that buying local produce etc requires living on 40 acres or some shit
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Yeah, I'd say that the issue is that doesn't work at all in small towns and barely works in cities
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Nonsense, it works fine in both--countless historical examples in USA, modern ones in Japan etc
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It did. I'm talking about now.
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That can get dicey. A big reason St Louis is in the shitter is too much localism.
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