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haele

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40. In some rural and older suburban areas...

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 11:47 AM

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"Big Daddy", his family members and business buddies run the town or local county resources. Not just in 19th century frontier trading towns, or collective farming/plantation communities, but up through remote local bank owned post WWII company, farming, and "crossroads/whistle stop" towns.
I've seen it growing up, and still see it now.

It's a common problem in small, isolate communities that operate on small margins. They keep voting to put members of "the good family", or major local employers in power, effectively setting up little undemocratic fiefdoms in supposedly independent, hard working people.

You know, using their iron fists to rule and feed off communities where the supposed "Real Patriotic Americans" live.

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