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We also have lakes and rivers. I'm going to the lake tomorrow to go kayaking, only a 10 minute drive away.
In the Atlanta area, if you want to go canoeing or kayaking, the Chattahoochee River is right there. Minneapolis has lakes IN its city limits. Seattle, its existence is related to water. Lake on one side of the city, the Puget Sound on the other side. No need to live in rural areas to have such activities. Just got to pick the right city.
Pfft, we're all "real Americans". Us rural folks are just surrounded by more land than people and have crappier Internet.
Although we really do not appreciate being called uneducated, racists, etc just because we live in rural areas, for what it's worth. If the Democrats keep saying that about rural folks, it's going to be hard to win those areas in the future.
In other words, Prole kitsch. Americana, evidently, is not the novels of Herman Melville or the poetry of Emily Dickinson. It’s “Big Boys”, rather than fine restaurants serving freshly-caught fish from the Gulf Coast, or Maine lobsters, with California wine. It’s Harley Davidson, rather than Duesenberg or Tesla. It’s “small baseball fields near cornfields”, rather than, say, a chess tournament.
And let me continue: it’s the high school football team – not the math team. It’s 16-packs of Bud Lite, not craft brew from a local microbrewery. It’s the local country station, rather than the public-radio station, which plays classical music and NPR.
Somehow the Right has painted the Left as being all about gender-ambiguity, mixed-use bathrooms, speech-codes, shrill protesters, stupid tattoos, sexual identity politics, punitive anti-business regulation, welfare and food-stamps, men with ponytails and women with buzz-cuts.
Well, here’s a newsflash: the real Left is John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stewart Mill, Robert Ingersoll, and more recently, Bertrand Russell. The real Left embraces human perfectibility and universality, arguing that the lessons of the past, however informative, are not dispositive. The real left embraces innovation and automation, international trade, free flow of capital and labor. The real left values privacy and personal dignity, independent of tribe or nation, church or community, tradition or fashion. Most importantly, the real Left realizes that ossified doctrine, whether in a “holy” book or a political document, is a best a useful guide and a set of examples and counterexamples. It is never infallible, absolute or irrefutable. Ethics, justice and the law are living entities, adapting to time and place, and contingent on the vagaries of circumstance and interpretation.
Fortunately I still live in real America untouched by the crooked finger of Leftism. I don't have to remember what once was because what once was still is.
well i sort of had to, because she was the Republican Party Vice Presidential nominee for a while. She could've ended up in a position of power had Obama not been elected.
You forgot extreme poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, collecting disability instead of working, poor health care and undereducated. That is the reality of Real America, not your "Leave it to Beaver" BS.
I think everyone is stereotyping a little much. I don't think there is any state or area that doesn't have both the good and bad elements of society. Both urban and rural communities have their distinct advantages and disadvantages. Some are drawn to one and some to another.
I grew up in a rural area. All the farming and manufacturing work was gone before I was even born. The residents there (included my parents) all commuted 2-3 hours to the nearest metro for work everyday.
I grew up in a rural area. All the farming and manufacturing work was gone before I was even born. The residents there (included my parents) all commuted 2-3 hours to the nearest metro for work everyday.
I couldn't put up with that for long. I couldn't live with all that time taken out of my life while having a HUGE gas bill. My friend got tired of commuting for two hours in a round trip each day to work and after a year was happy to find a similar job in town. Now her daily round trip commute is only around 10 minutes with only one traffic light on the way.
Most of rural America has been declining in population in large part, in order to live closer to where decent paying jobs are. But then some people like my friend, don't have to move to a metro area to get a good job in their field.
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