This is me bitching about how US policy since the 30s led to the situation we're in today

Thanks to concerted government policy since the 30s (which really took off in the post-war 50s), cities have been drained of their wealth, which has been used to finance middle class flight to the suburbs and hinterlands (FHA, VA, Federal Interstate Highway System, electrifying farms, etc.). You might notice today that most cities are still bastions of progressive politics amidst seas of retarded neocons. The most rational explanation I can think of for this is that thanks to the cooshy new lifestyle (paid for by city dwellers!) in isolation in their little (big) suburban/rural-bumfuck-middle-of-nowhere home, they no longer had to contend with the real issues of day to day life faced by so many. So instead they got a chance to become idealogical (in many places largely religious) zealots. Now that they've managed to drain so many cities of their former glory to build their little asshat towns that continue to drain resources even today, they somehow feel like it's their right to force their ideologies upon those of us who, unlike them, have to contend with some of the more pressing issues of life that they have so deftly avoided by moving away. By doing so they largely make things worse for us (city-dwellers mostly, but not exclusively) and really no better for themselves. It seems that making their own moral choices is not enough for them, no, they need to make those choices LAW so that no one, no matter what their circumstances of beliefs, can do things.

Thanks to these policies and concerted efforts, these asshats are now apparantly the majority of the voting populace! Check your history books, but I'm pretty sure the population wasn't distrubted as sparsely as it is now back before the 50s and after the industrial revolution. THAT was america's real hey-day.