The Democratic Party’s brand is so toxic in some parts of rural America that liberals are removing bumper stickers and refusing to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic
SMETHPORT, Pa. (AP) — Some Democrats in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats.
The party’s brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers and yard signs and refuse to acknowledge publicly their party affiliation. These Democrats are used to being outnumbered by the local Republican majority, but as their numbers continue to dwindle, those who remain are feeling increasingly isolated and unwelcome in their own communities.
“The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County who recently encouraged his daughter to get rid of a pro-Joe Biden bumper sticker. “I feel like we’re on the run.”
The climate across rural Pennsylvania is symptomatic of a larger political problem threatening the Democratic Party heading into the November elections.
Beyond losing votes in virtually every election since 2008, Democrats have been effectively ostracized from the overwhelmingly white parts of rural America, leaving party leaders with few options to reverse a cultural trend that is redefining the political landscape.
No worries. There are enough Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to outnumber whatever Republicans there are in the rest of the state.
“The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,”
Yeah....THEY’RE the victims. 👌
Typical leftist tactic, they start crap and when the right fights back they blame us.......it’s an old trick.
The better feel like they’re on the run.
Their behavior during COVID should never be forgotten and I’m all for beating the horse dead on that alone.
I read that piece when it came out. To me it was another example of Progressives projecting - accusing conservatives of doing what they already to in earnest - abjectly and actively HATING opponents who don’t adopt and display their Progressive orthodoxy.
Progressives deface cars with the ‘wrong-think’ messages on them, disrupt conservative gatherings, including houses of worship, burn buildings, viciously attack in ways that used to be slander and libel. They feel virtuous doing it, and justified as well.
What’s worse is they are permitted to do it.
Point is, inside Progressive-controlled regions, CONSERVATIVES are NOT safe from physical or legal attack. Period.
It sickens me. What also sickens me is that the Church does little but retreat and yield in the face of it all.
Dostoevsky got it right: to paraphrase, in Godless Progressive/MArxist circles, everything is permissable. This has two meanings - (1) there is no Heavenly morality, only the heart and mind of man who has the power to enforce their worldview, ie nothing is a prioi immoral or not permitted. (2) permissable means also that those in power take the authority to define ‘morality’ or right and wrong and thus can decide what *you* are permitted - or prohibited from doing - with a pen and a telephone. They also have plenty of useful idiots ready to act as their violent proxies.
God and the Devil have long been at war and the battlefield is the hearts and minds of man. (also paraphrasing Dostoevsky).
AS an aside: I have NEVER seen a Democrat labeled car or home abused by conservatives in the area. Never. I have however been on the receiving end more than once. “we” exercise restraint while they feel no need to do so.
Democrats have labeled themselves as being against whites for so long, that white people are finally starting to believe them.
They have "cried wolf" on "white supremacy" for so long, that white people are starting to ask themselves "do we really prefer to live a society where white people are NOT in charge?"