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Politicians favor big cities and big employers. That’s where the voters are. While I understand the philosophy and reasoning (because politicians live to get re-elected), it is a shame because those who live in big cities and the politicians they elect have zero clue about life in a small town and why it reflects the greatness that was America.

I spent many years of my youth in a small midwest town of about 2,000 people. Everyone knows everyone – and that may be the biggest drawback. There can tend to be some gossiping in small towns. But overlooking that one flaw, small towns still hold the truth that big cities no longer possess.

Big cities are more me, me me. What’s in it for me. What is the government going to do for me. How is my politician going to help me.

Certainly that mentality exists in every town, even small towns. Agreed. But to a far lessor degree. Absolutely.

In a small town you are more apt to see people helping people, residents taking food to the sick. Churches taking care of their own. Neighbors helping neighbors. Oh sure, there are government social programs going on. But if you turned that faucet off, most small towns would band together and support each other. It’s the way America used to be.

Now, America demands their government to do the caring. It’s a step down as far as I am concerned. It’s not the way America used to be. Life, in many ways, was better then. That’s because even bigger cities used to operate like the small towns still do today.

Everyone focuses on the big city today and the big employer. And that is too bad because the big cities and big employers do not have the love, the heart and the soul that the small U.S. towns have.  

Instead of everyone focusing on the big city and big employer, perhaps we need to be studying why life in a small town more reflects the soul of America from yesteryear.
 

 

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