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> The only solution here is mandatory re-education and/or limiting who can vote.

History tells us that the Narodnik[1] plan failed. The real change in minds came when the rural masses migrated to cities with dense habitation and the calculus of labor doing industrial jobs proved fertile for new ideas.

The only problem we have today is that large-scale rural->urban migration leaves huge swaths of the heartland emptied out which severely exacerbates our present problem because of the way senators are apportioned.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodniks




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