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Barring some 2008-like economic crash that makes everyone realize how F up the Republicans are, Rural America will always stay to the right. All this talk about, "Oh, you Dems gotta pander to Middle America!" It's all complete BS! Rural America will always vote rural America. You can bend down on your knees and pull a Trump-to-Putin, but you ain't getting their votes.
The article is long, but it's worth reading in its entirety.
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I grew up in rural Christian white America. You’d be hard-pressed to find an area of the country with a higher percentage of Christians or whites. I spent most of the first 24 years of my life deeply embedded in this culture. I religiously (pun intended) attended their Christian services. I worked off and on on their rural farms. I dated their calico-skirted daughters. I camped, hunted and fished with their sons. I listened to their political rants at the local diner and truck stop.
As the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: "Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”
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Right off the bat, here's the money quote..."The real problem is that rural Americans don't understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out."
"Coastal elites" have no idea how narrow-minded and truly full of squat they are.
Well that certainly explains why the DNC and democratic party have lost 900 seats nationwide since Obama took office in 2008. His and Clinton's constant pandering to the right while ignoring their base has helped to destroy the democratic party.
Barring some 2008-like economic crash that makes everyone realize how F up the Republicans are, Rural America will always stay to the right. All this talk about, "Oh, you Dems gotta pander to Middle America!" It's all complete BS! Rural America will always vote rural America. You can bend down on your knees and pull a Trump-to-Putin, but you ain't getting their votes.
It makes you wonder how the United States became what it has been and was able to maintain a high level of success in the world, up until this year. Were these backwards masses out there all this time and just waiting for a false prophet to come along and activate them? Were we really doomed by them all this time and just surviving on borrowed time, before their emergence? The irony of it is, that those in the red regions couldn't have survived without the large subsidies that came from the progressive and productive blue regions. If the proportioning of voting representation in the Electoral College wasn't greatly skewed to favor rural states, they couldn't have been successful in hijacking our government. We may have fueled the element of the destruction of both us and them.
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Right off the bat, here's the money quote..."The real problem is that rural Americans don't understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out."
"Coastal elites" have no idea how narrow-minded and truly full of squat they are.
This quote is NOT from a coastal elite, it's straight from a Middle America former farm boy.
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