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MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that rural Americans are “the core threat to our democracy” and pointed to a series of tweets by liberal author Jared Yates Sexton that claimed Trump supporters “do not believe in the Constitution or any founding principles unless they're advantageous” as proof of her far-left theory.
She tweeted: "This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority."
MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that rural Americans are “the core threat to our democracy” and pointed to a series of tweets by liberal author Jared Yates Sexton that claimed Trump supporters “do not believe in the Constitution or any founding principles unless they're advantageous” as proof of her far-left theory.
She tweeted: "This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority."
"Rural Americans" = white people who do not adhere to the progressive ideology.
As somebody who lives in rural America (in the South), I can say this is not far from the truth. Most people here want a right-wing Baptist theocracy where homosexuality is illegal and young earth creationism is taught in public school science classes. They only support things like free speech and free press when it benefits them and they want to restrict opposing viewpoints from getting the same treatment. Their ideal society is something that isn't far off from "A Handmaid's Tale." The only "rights" they support are gun rights.
This is the Internet so I have to say that of course, I know that not EVERYONE who lives in rural America think like this. However, this worldview is quite common.
the electoral college that gives rural areas more power than they should have is the threat to our democracy.
Religion that heavily dominates in these rural areas because frankly they have nothing else to do, is the threat to our democracy.
Education remains on the back burner even in urban cities (granted more intellects flock to cities for jobs). But if education was made priority in this country, free college. We wouldn't have rural America, wishing for the good ole days and wanting to bring everyone down with them.
Education remains on the back burner even in urban cities (granted more intellects flock to cities for jobs). But if education was made priority in this country, free college. We wouldn't have rural America, wishing for the good ole days and wanting to bring everyone down with them.
So true. Rural America by and large still cannot accept that the 1960s happened. Here we are, almost two decades into the 21st century, and we are still trying to bring back the 1950s by any means possible, even if it takes electing pedophiles to do it. I am ashamed to live in the rural South personally because I don't agree with the predominant mentality around here.
the electoral college that gives rural areas more power than they should have is the threat to our democracy.
Religion that heavily dominates in these rural areas because frankly they have nothing else to do, is the threat to our democracy.
Education remains on the back burner even in urban cities (granted more intellects flock to cities for jobs). But if education was made priority in this country, free college. We wouldn't have rural America, wishing for the good ole days and wanting to bring everyone down with them.
Hillary lost because Philly, Detroit and Wisconsin rejected her.
the electoral college that gives rural areas more power than they should have is the threat to our democracy.
Religion that heavily dominates in these rural areas because frankly they have nothing else to do, is the threat to our democracy.
Education remains on the back burner even in urban cities (granted more intellects flock to cities for jobs). But if education was made priority in this country, free college. We wouldn't have rural America, wishing for the good ole days and wanting to bring everyone down with them.
Religion has existed in rural America for over 200 years. What's the damaged caused by it ?
I love it when the big city liberals start in with this. Do they really not realize that rural and urban MUST coexist? From farmers to truckers to oil and gas lines and water supply, people like Joy would be in huge trouble without the rural. Same thing goes in the opposite direction. WTF is the matter with people? (Don't answer. Completely rhetorical. Too many people are stupid - whether rural or urban.)
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