Posted on 04/06/2024 6:20:07 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
If you’ve been watching television or tracking trending topics over the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen or read something about “white rural rage.” This is owed to the publication of a new book, White Rural Rage, by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, whose thesis is that white rural Americans, despite representing just 16 percent of the American electorate, are a “threat to the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.”
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Back in the early 2000s, I listened to the talk host Ron Smith in Baltimore. He was a conservative who wasn’t fond of W and opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. Shaller was a frequent guest and was a caricature of a leftist academic on all topics. He always sounded like a ridiculously overmatched adversary against Smith’s calm responses. It seems Shaller has become only more hysterical.
I’d not heard of him before this. He has all the arrogance of a NYC jerkoff. Like my BIL.
And that rural America has learned that all those government programs come with many strings attached. There ain’t no free lunch. You want to partake of a ‘helpful’ government program you will do as your betters tell you.
Where does one even begin with this nonsense? For starters maybe the urban dwellers need to ask themselves what they do and how their attitudes toward their fellow citizens contribute to the urban v rural divide.
In California when city folks send a dollar to Washington, DC, they get back on average .74 of that dollar for their community. Taxpayers in rural California send $1 to DC and they only get back .17 on average. How is this fair? Why should rural America be on the hook for bailing out and fixing the city problems that are totally caused by the voters in those cities and their policies? Sacramento is the same. Tax everyone in the state but spends the bulk of the revenue on the urban areas while saddling rural areas with costly regulations.
Someone also needs to tell these bozos that “white rural America” is just as likely to be hispanic, black and asian rural America and they are just as angry as their white neighbors if not more so.
Jimmy Dore had a great piece on these rediculous phoookers.
They state the obvious case why, then circle and spin around it like blind mice.
Like a comedy sketch, if it wasn’t so revealing.
I’ve seen this trick before. Substitute Southerners 50 years ago for “rural Americans” today and you get exactly the same. The same arrogance from elitist, (mostly Yankee) urban leftists. The same insistence that they know best and they have all the answers. The same at first thinly disguised and then not even disguised at all contempt they have for them. Its all the same.
They steadfastly REFUSE to listen to any of their concerns.
They spew non stop bile at them....call them stupid, backward and hateful and otherwise put them down every single last chance they get - then turn right around and wonder why they can’t get these people to trust them or vote for them.
Keep it up, idiots.
The primary difference between city and country people is the degree of independence and self-reliance; these are two completely different worldviews that have little in common. The former are much more accustomed to having someone else do many things for them than the latter - including thinking for themselves. City folk want a nanny-state government to make decisions for them and to insulate them from consequences of their actions, while country folk have no choice (logistically) except to do these things for themselves.
These are unreconcilable difference, and the glaring difference between the Control-left and freedom/independence loving Americans of “flyover country”.
It’s time our country goes full Pinochet.
I agree.
A few donkeys are smart enough to realize that hurling insults at this group of people is not a very effective means of ever getting them to trust or vote for you. Most of them are too self righteous and just too damn stupid to do anything else though. So they’ll continue to lash out at anybody who doesn’t vote for them and thus ensure they’ll never be trusted and never be voted for again by that group of people.
Look how lashing out at Southerners has worked out for Democrats over the last 50 years. They used to OWN the South completely after the Republicans covered themselves in chit during the Occupation. Republicans couldn’t win elections there for 100 years. Then Democrats turned more and more and more Leftist ignoring warning after warning from Southerners that this is not what they supported until finally the South started voting against them. Rather than actually learning something from this, Democrats chose to lash out against Southerners thus ensuring their continuing defeat across the entire region. They’re doing it all over again with Rural voters.
They think that if they talk with 10 folks in two or three different towns, that’s all that matters. They bring their own prejudices to the conversations they engage in, and wonder why we think they’re snooty snoots. Confirmation bias. They go out looking for their preconceived notions about rural Americans, and when they find it, they say, “See? I was right!”
I’m one of those people who grow our food. I don’t have any rage and neither do the farmers and ranchers I know. We just want the government to leave us alone and let us live our lives. It’s actually very peaceful out here on the farm. I heard the doves cooing this morning, the bird of peace.
My husband loves your ant analogy.
Rootless Cosmopolitans
Mostly agree. There are some key policy issues like Gaia worship that are really antithetical to rural people. ie they need oil for agriculture and they need cheaper gas because they simply have to drive much longer distances for everything....and public transport is not practical as everybody knows. So Democrats would have to scale back radically on that. But as much as anything, the divide is cultural.
Northeastern (and Left Coast) urban elites look down on rural people in the same way they look down on Southerners. They make no secret of it. Everything from "bitter....clinging to guns and religion" to "basket of deplorables" to spewing hate about the Confederate battle flag to screeching that they're all racists and sexists and xenophobes....oh and let's not forget homophobes etc etc etc. They're the butt of every "joke" on SNL or from the late night "comedians", to claims like this by a couple of Leftist wackademics. And on and on and on.
The hate could not be more palpable. But it comes from them - not from the objects of the elites' hatred. Everybody else sees it plain as day.
I suspect that trucker that went viral, calling for the stoppage of deliveries to NYC, was threatened by tptb. Because an embargo would have demonstrated just how much of a house of cards the DC regime is, and would remind everyone who "runs Bartertown". Tptb couldn't afford that.
Oh he's absolutely right about that. Notice how they are systematically against anything that allows people to be outside their control. They're against oil.....if its all public transport and electric power, they can control that centrally. They're against suburbs - they want everybody packed like sardines into big apartment buildings. They're against rural living - they want everybody concentrated in cities. They're against home heating oil - again they want electricity which they can centrally control. Central control over Big Tech.....increasing concentration of banks....the crusade against Crypto......the attempts to impose a social credit system....the crusade against agriculture......ALL of it points in one direction only - Central Control (under them of course).
They want total control.
How could I forget the Gun Grabbers? Obviously only the government should have guns.....
or that anybody could believe it not in their interest to be controlled by and entirely beholden to, government.
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