When this is all over, I think there will be one demographic that will suffer far worse than others

[KY_EnviroGuy]

43. Yes, please see Post 42, above. The rest of the story is....

There's a strong parallel to that in the destruction of almost all our family-owned small businesses across the nation by big box stores. Those little stores were a huge part of the heart of our communities.

When I was young in a small farming town of 880 or 900 people in the 50s and 60s, all businesses in town were locally owned and we could get most everything we needed in town.

My memory is foggy on the numbers but I believe we had four grocery stores, four gas station/garages, a bank and post office, three or four clothing stores (one was men only), two jewelers, two barber shops, a radio/TV repair shop, a pool hall, a drug store, a five-and-dime store, a Carnation Dairy, three feed stores, a Belknap Hardware and a Western Auto. Oh, and a grammar school and high school. Whew!

Of course, that served quite a large area of farms over many miles. A very self-contained life.

We must never lose sight of the fact that free-market Republicans do not want us to have community because it threatens their quest for power and control of society.

Community means people interacting and debating and taking action in their own interest.

KY rant done!.......