Have you heard it? The left-wing media has been quick to rush to the statistics to show how Donald Trump shocked the nation in winning this election, and it’s been an extremely bigoted analysis. Posted on 11/12/2016 12:02:52 PM PST by Kaslin
Have you heard it? The left-wing media has been quick to rush to the statistics to show how Donald Trump shocked the nation in winning this election, and it’s been an extremely bigoted analysis.
Many of the experts who got it wrong for the last eighteen months have explained it by saying the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ elected Trump.
They report that Trump won the election astoundingly amongst non-college educated voters in some states. For instance, he won by thirty points in Michigan verses Mitt Romney only winning that ‘uneducated’ group by eleven points in 2012.
MSNBC was proud to report that Trump won 76% of counties with a Cracker Barrel and 22% of counties with a Whole Foods grocery store. This is code for “the dumb people in America voted for Trump and us smart people get a pass for being wrong.”
To infer that the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ is any less relevant to our country is no different than asserting someone has less relevance because of their race, religion or national origin. It's bigoted and it should not be indulged. I’m not offended by it and I’m certainly not angry like many of the petulant children who we've seen rioting and protesting in the streets because they don't like the outcome of our democratic process.
I know the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd.’ It’s called “my family.” I grew up in middle Tennessee working for the company that manufactures all the rocking chairs at the Cracker Barrel's across America. In fact, it was my first job and it was the hardest work I've ever done.
On any given day, many of my close and extended family may eat at Cracker Barrel. They are what we call ‘the silent majority.’ They go to church on Sunday, they save for retirement, they teach their kids morals/values and they give to charity. They don't like confrontation or conflict and they rarely like discussing politics (with outsiders) because they don't want extra strife in their life. They want to live humbly and peacefully in a free nation and enjoy their life without extensive government or outside interference.
They are disgusted by the direction of this nation. They don't hate anyone and they certainly don't feel that they are ‘better’ than anyone else.
I'm part of the ‘Whole Foods crowd’ now. I've been blessed in success and I love to eat healthy. But, my roots are still in the country on a farm at the ‘Cracker Barrel.’ And, I’m not ashamed of it.
It’s in that environment where I find the most peace.
In this fast-paced, overwhelming, digitized and complicated society, there are days where I envy the simplicity that many of my hometown friends and family still enjoy.
How dare these leftist elites with their self-aggrandizement, smug-superiority and bigoted ‘better than thou’ attitude try to cast aside millions of goodhearted, Christian and hard-working Americans simply because they are less sophisticated and engaged in this overwhelming society!
While I may not be living the ‘Cracker Barrel lifestyle,’ I appreciate it because it's rooted in family, values and goodwill.
When the “Cracker Barrel crowd’ is defeated they are humble. When they suffer strife, they pray. They attempt to love their enemies and they mostly forgive the transgressions by others against them. They wait for a divine moment, patiently, and then they act.
I have heard it said that God gives us billboards - signs (in life) that are clear warnings or clear indications of what we must do to live out our purpose.
The infinite wisdom and patience of the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ to endure the Obama presidency, the developing civil unrest in our nation and the degradation of our leadership and economic authority in the world - is staggering.
They are not simple in purpose even if they may appear simple (to some) as people.
We can learn from them. They have been silent and humble for years in cultural defeat and they have remained silent and humble even in victory.
They read ‘God's billboard!’ For every attack against Trump, they read even more, they watched the entire video (in context) and they were awakened to both the crookedness of the Left and the incredible distortions of the media.
Every time the media played the Access Hollywood video, bashed Trump about his taxes, attacked his wife (immigrant Melania Trump) or called him a name (‘racist’ or ‘bigoted’) the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ was reminded of how they had been treated for simply trying to follow their moral compass in life: judged by others and cast aside as ‘simpletons.’
The unending, visceral and volatile nature of this election and the one-sided assaults on Trump served as a clear ‘billboard’ that this election was a divine calling to take this country away from the people who were destroying and distorting it.
In defeat, many leaders, leftist-activists and truly angry citizens have made themselves known as they have criticized the democratic process, rioted in the streets or called for violence in the wake of a Trump victory.
From this horrific display, we now know that the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ is not the problem in this nation if they are simple. They are the heart of this nation. I will not stand for attacks on this group as we watch these ‘out of control’ adults, acting as toddlers - having temper tantrums in the streets of America.
These ‘toddlers’ are emotionally immature, cognitively disconnected and unable to express an intelligent or cogent thought (just as a 2 year-old throws a tantrum in the middle of a ‘Cracker Barrel’ store’s floor). They should be ignored.
In the words of President Obama, “Don't boo, vote!” Thankfully, the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ voted en masse, and now we have a chance to rehabilitate this great nation.
From May 5 until now, I predicted this enormous victory because I knew the ‘Cracker Barrel crowd’ had awoken and no poll could detect it.
To say nothing about the Rap “music” lyrics at her rallies (free concerts).
We ate there once, I nicknamed it the ‘Crapper Barrel’ as it was just another tourist trap. Oh, well.
I was at Cracker Barrel 3X this week for breakfast each day on my drive home (Michigan) from Arizona.
HOORAY Cracker Barrel. GRRRRRRREAT breakfast (Sunrise Sampler).
Well Townhall.com, they were in 29 states. Seems to be a few of them, doesn’t it.
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Your comment is important and very well made. What is so good it the idea of the wealthy buying the media. With their declining economic situation, they are ripe for political prostitution for pay. It is the same dynamics as the anti-Trump rent-a-mobs and, I suspect, the poll agencies.
As authenticity gets undermined by economic gain, their relevancy will be less and they will go in the ash can of history.
There’s only one Cracker Barrel left in MN. Maybe it’s time to get a couple more.
Wow, where to begin. Lets first understand that 76% of the US does not have a college degree. So, thats most of America. Some people without college degrees include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. These guys went to college and dropped out because they knew that it was a waste of time.
While I went to college, I can say that most of my friends and most of my children’s friends spent the college years drinking themselves silly. It was four years of growing up on my parent’s dole.
I ran a software company for 30 years in Chicago and traveled to New York’s midtown twice a month. I have 875,000 miles on united the hard way. What I find amazing is that the folks in the inner inner city can’t seem to figure out what happened.
There are two reasons they are so confused. One is that they can’t tell when they are being lied to. The New York Times, CNN, The DNC and Hillary all lied to them and they still don’t see it.
The other reason that they are so lost is because we did not straighten them out. The Cracker Barrel crowd kept our mouths shut around them. Mostly because they are mean; Very mean. They will boycott your business, throw eggs at your house, shun you socially, speak ill of you behind your back and to your face. They have signs like “Love Trumps Hate”. But those guys don’t know love. They only know hate. And they hate us and look down on us. And call us names and do damage to our property. So we quietly went to the voting booth and pulled the right lever.
And I would like to add one more thing. They think of themselves as the working class party. The reality is your working class if you vote for them. If you vote republican your a racist uneducated bigot.
LOL.
Also this: I grew up in middle Tennessee working for the company that manufactures all the rocking chairs at the Cracker Barrel’s across America.
No apostrophe. It’s not a possessive.
My take on the liberal analysis is this: They are all about feelings, but theirs only. They are utterly without empathy or understanding. They cannot possibly fathom what anyone outside of their tight circle of liberal friends thinks. Now their tender feeling have been upset because they didn’t get their own way and they are throwing a tantrum. The reason they lost can’t possibly be because they were wrong! That would be insulting to their superior intellect and what is, in their fevered imagination, the moral high ground. So they have to explain it away by disparaging those who held a different view.
And just for the record, I think it would be a VERY interesting analysis to separate out the college educated vote by what their degrees were in. I am positive Hitlery got at least 95% of the gender studies vote, the racial studies vote, at least 90% of the sociology and anthropology vote, 80%+ of the environmental “science” vote, etc. I’d like to see how she did among people with degrees in engineering, math, physics and other subjects that require serious thought, that have correct answers and incorrect answer, where you can’t get an “A” by sucking up to the professor.
Even though I have only been to a Cracker Barrel once 25 yrs. ago, I consider myself part of this group!!
Its a one man/woman/tranny, one vote system. Our side needs to continue to turn out en masse and engage. The long term trend is not on our side and the rats will do all they can to snatch victory from us.
I never even heard of Cracker Barrel.
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Oh the so intelligent, so refined, so up above it all............................fn lost!
“Cracker Barrel trumps Starbucks.”
AMEN !
Wife loved that Catfish and fixins !
I still have the outline of his health care plan which he published in the WSJ before ObamaCare was imposed on America..
It's an excellent plan, and Trump would be smart to consider it.
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