Reason.1 – Perpetual Conflict
Is this not a fascinating paradox that every nation faces Cities Revolting the Capital City.
The Nation-State cannot exist without cities, nor can there be a great state without a great city within it. Yet the state’s seat of power is always a capital — and a capital is not always a great city. For the capital’s true function was never to be great; it exists to control and to defend the state. And that function is often at war with the very greatness of the cities it rules.
State and city are perpetual rivals, just as great cities are rivals to one another. And in the end, time and again, the great city consumes the state and becomes it — or the state, sensing this, exiles its seat of power to a lesser throne, a capital built for control rather than greatness. This often ends with the great cities rebelling against the norms and rules imposed on them by the capital city and lesser cities siding with the capital city to garnet favors.
The quest of the capital city to control and defend, its greater domain, the state, it grows its powers at the cities expense by imposing infrastructures and projects designed to enhance the state. It strikes at the great cities and empowers weaker cities which weakens the great cities – the powerhouses of the state. In so doing the capital city seals its own demise alongside theirs.
Reason 2 – Stupid People
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Stupid is running the insane asylum!
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Until there are tests* to ensure there are no retarded voters Mayors of the low mental ilk of Mandami, Bass, Johnson, and Wilson accompanied city elected representatives.
- Voter have to demonstrate an ability to:
- read and understand an ordinary ballot proposition;
- distinguish federal, state, and local authority;
- understand basic percentages, taxation, debt, and probability;
- identify what the executive, legislature, and courts can actually do;
- interpret a simple chart or factual comparison;
- distinguish a factual claim from an opinion;
- understand that government expenditures ultimately require taxes, borrowing, monetary creation, or reductions elsewhere.
Abstract: Cognitive Sorting and the Divergent Trajectories of American Cities
Recent shifts in spatial migration have divided major U.S. metropolitan areas into two distinct demographic models defined by how they attract, filter, and retain human capital. Cluster A (Legacy Megalopolises like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) operates on a model of Spatial Skill Polarization. Driven by extreme housing costs and narrow institutional filters (tech, corporate finance, and specialized visas), these traditional hubs attract an ultra-high cognitive top-tier alongside non-selective service labor, while suffering a massive net loss of native-born, middle-to-high cognitive domestic talent. Conversely, Cluster B (Rising Regional Hubs like Huntsville, Austin, Houston, Miami, and Nashville) operates on Broad-Spectrum Talent Absorption. By pairing specialized industrial magnets (aerospace, energy, defense, and trade) with lower living costs, these cities actively capture the adventurous, mobile domestic “brain drain” fleeing Cluster A.
This demographic divergence directly impacts the cultural and political orientation of both urban models:
Cluster A cities become politically hyper-polarized and structurally dependent. As the self-reliant, skilled middle class leaves, the city’s social fabric splits between a hyper-wealthy executive/academic elite and an infrastructure-dependent baseline population, reinforcing top-down institutional control and federal alignment.
Cluster B cities develop an orientation grounded in practical, decentralized autonomy. Absorbing a critical mass of mobile, technically skilled, and entrepreneurial families creates a broad-spectrum cognitive baseline that fosters economic independence, local innovation, and a strong pushback against centralized authority.
Suggested Key References for Further Review
1. Glaeser, E. L., & Saiz, A. (2004). Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Human Capital, and the Future of Resurgence. (On how human capital concentration drives urban vitality).
2. Moretti, E. (2012). The New Geography of Jobs. (On spatial sorting, cognitive polarization, and the divergence between skilled and unskilled metro areas).
3. Eeckhout, J., Pinheiro, R., & Schmidheiny, K. (2014). Spatial Sorting of Workers Based on Abilities. (On the “thick tails” model of high-skill/low-skill concentration in major megalopolises).