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It's been a real education. I had no idea the disdain some people have for rural America and the working class, and really do not get it. It's not even about Trump. This didn't just crop up overnight, the election exposed it.
I will agree to an extent. I had NO idea that rural America thoroughly hated urban America and seems to think everyone in Urban America is living some kind of easy life.
Oh, and the disdain for college students has become louder and louder for the past five years; like it's really easy to graduate from college as opposed to working a manufacturing job or some such.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
I will agree to an extent. I had NO idea that rural America thoroughly hated urban America and seems to think everyone in Urban America is living some kind of easy life.
Oh, and the disdain for college students has become louder and louder for the past five years; like it's really easy to graduate from college as opposed to working a manufacturing job or some such.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
Anthony is late to the party. Why didn't he bring this up early in the year? Bernie Sanders was busy going around the country trying to get middle class votes but he kept being told to court the millennials and immigrants by those same damn polls that got it wrong. All he needed to do was fly to middle America and tell them the same thing that Trump was saying. "I'm gonna bring back jobs and I will tell the companies to keep jobs here in America!"
I've seen Bernie gave similar speech like Trump except he kept attacking Trump as a bigot and misogynist and not stick to the issues.
The entire Democrat strategy this year was about negative attacks against Trump and his people and that's why they failed. They never gave the working class people any hope or list of things they will do to bring jobs back.
Now they will pay the price of failure which is obscurity. I once was part of the democrat party but they never resonated with me the past 10 years.
I will agree to an extent. I had NO idea that rural America thoroughly hated urban America and seems to think everyone in Urban America is living some kind of easy life.
Oh, and the disdain for college students has become louder and louder for the past five years; like it's really easy to graduate from college as opposed to working a manufacturing job or some such.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
NO idea what you are talking about. Rural people don't care if you go to college and get a tech job in a city. They are trying to keep a roof over their kids heads.
NO idea what you are talking about. Rural people don't care if you go to college and get a tech job in a city. They are trying to keep a roof over their kids heads.
He's just being stupid, he doesn't even know what he's talking about.
I will agree to an extent. I had NO idea that rural America thoroughly hated urban America and seems to think everyone in Urban America is living some kind of easy life.
Oh, and the disdain for college students has become louder and louder for the past five years; like it's really easy to graduate from college as opposed to working a manufacturing job or some such.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
It's not? Now how hard could it be to get a degree in gender studies? I mean, some chick carried a mattress around Columbia U and even walked across the stage with it on graduation day...
We didn't get safe spaces before the Berlin Wall fell. We actually had to huddle under desks for bomb drills.
I will agree to an extent. I had NO idea that rural America thoroughly hated urban America and seems to think everyone in Urban America is living some kind of easy life.
Seems you're misguided here......its the Liberals that came out calling rural Americans names. Bible thumpers, gun-toting tea baggers, deplorable etc.......and Obama and Hillary wonder why they lost!
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Oh, and the disdain for college students has become louder and louder for the past five years; like it's really easy to graduate from college as opposed to working a manufacturing job or some such.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
The disdain comes from low income, uneducated people who never plan to finish college. 30 yrs ago many of my friends went to college, some had to drop out, due to not having the funds to finish. Now young adults are wanting to take out college loans, with nothing to back that loan up and then stop paying when times get tough. Yet, how many have been paying on their college loans for 20+ yrs. Plus, just how many illegals and immigrants are now filling up our colleges, over American young adults.
Its not the disdain for college students. Its the disdain that most colleges are becoming one sided political liberal playing fields, that others are not being treated fairly with what they're paying for.
Let's face it and admit it - the disdain works both ways.
True. But the more important truth is that this is exactly what the elites who rule over us want...They want us divided every which way: liberal vs. conservative, red state vs. blue state, black vs. white, religious vs. secular, pro life vs. pro choice, and on and on and on.
It's deliberate.
In the article, Bourdain talks about the rise of authoritarianism...and he is right about that. But it doesn't appear to have dawned on him yet that this authoritarianism is coming from across the political spectrum. It just wears different guises depending on the political party.
NO idea what you are talking about. Rural people don't care if you go to college and get a tech job in a city. They are trying to keep a roof over their kids heads.
All you have to do is peruse this forum to see what I'm talking about. Do you not think that city dwellers also worry about jobs and taking care of their families????
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It's not? Now how hard could it be to get a degree in gender studies? I mean, some chick carried a mattress around Columbia U and even walked across the stage with it on graduation day...
We didn't get safe spaces before the Berlin Wall fell. We actually had to huddle under desks for bomb drills.
You speak only in basic stereotypes. Get back to me when you get your degree in engineering or an MBA in finance.
Obviously you don't know what you don't know.
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True. But the more important truth is that this is exactly what the elites who rule over us want...They want us divided every which way: liberal vs. conservative, red state vs. blue state, black vs. white, religious vs. secular, pro life vs. pro choice, and on and on and on.
It's deliberate.
Indeed it is. Donald Trump just ran the MOST divisive campaign that this country has ever seen.
Yeah, that piece increased my level of respect for the man. Y'know it's sad. I don't WANT to know that I'm sharing a country with a group that puts the best interests of non-Americans ahead of the best interests of their brethren. That actually saddens me. I look around and just think "would you turn on your own family if they were in need too?"
I mean whether or not they agree, I believe you help your family first, then your neighbors, then the people down the road, then the next city, state, and way way at the bottom of the list citizens of another nation. What liberals seem to be doing is exactly opposite, and then rationalizing it by using words like "privileged" and comparing their neighbors to those they actually know nothing about. In short, they don't seem to have any loyalty whatsoever to what was once their nation.
This is why I've said in the past I wouldn't hire them. What if that thought process creeps into business? Would I have to worry about them putting the needs of another company they feel is more deserving ahead of their own employer? It's not really a stretch when you look at what has been happening.
I guess that's what it comes down to, right? Loyalty. Liberals just don't seem to have any loyalty for their nation. Never mind their "country". Because a "country" essentially is the government of a nation. A "nation" is a collective of people within a common society. A "nation" is antithetical to what liberals seem to cherish, and that is multiculturalism. When you have several groups of people all adhering to different social norms and goals, that's not a nation. They don't seem to understand that, and it didn't used to be that way.
What really saddens me? I feel like I'm lowering myself to their level when I have to turn on them to remain loyal to my nation. But hey, they put me in that position. I certainly didn't ask for it.
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