Posted on 12/14/2016 2:14:39 AM PST by Libloather
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A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn’t commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.
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Since the inception of the term silent majority almost 50 years ago, and all of its iterations since, this block of voters was hardly a majority and never silent. This group has been exceedingly adept at dominating the narrative in virtually every election cycle. They’re proficient at dog-whistle propaganda, and since the mid-1980s, they’ve created their own media echo-chamber which exponentially multiplies the sound of their own voices, with no interference from outside sources. This was accomplished mainly with coast to coast a.m. radio stations broadcasting 24/7 right-wing indoctrination, to conservative patriot and alt-right conspiracy theory websites of the last 15 years which disseminate tragic half-truths and whole fake news.
The alleged silent majority is deafening and easily provoked. They reside in their own echo-chamber bubble of indignation about everything from "New York values" (urban, ethnic rights, LGBT, social justice), to the war on Christmas and Black Lives Matter. They mocked and derided all people’s protests from Occupy to #NoDAPL. Their old standbys are opposing a woman’s right to choose, reinstituting school prayer and eradicating "big government." They hate progress. Their idea of American values is straight from circa 1870.
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Duane needs to get out of Detroit more, recognize why Detriot has beccome such a ‘rat Urban Utopia and recognize that America can br Made Great Again by having the gov’ts peave us alone.
We have just seen eight years of a government filled with maladjusted gays trying to misuse its powers to get back at Dad.
Well, on November 8th, Dad took away the car keys. :)
Well, said.
You stated “They really believe that anyone who disagrees is stupid, uneducated, a rube, and a racist.”
You need to change the word “uneducated” to the proper word “unindoctrinated” since that’s what an college education of today really is.
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Duane, son...... The recently established blue zones are not America
People that live there are now by definition Ameritrash. As an Ameriphobe, that most assuredly includes you
Americas headlong rush to globalize & offshore Detroit’s livelihood, car making, to the 3rd world is the nut of the problem. Liberals/leftists/socialists are the parasites feeding on the corpse.
The coasts are held hostage and can’t flood the country with illegals at a rate that satisfies their need to have the country commit suicide like Germany.
P S... They forgot to add the "Blue Wall" to the growing list of fly over states who have rejected the elites.
Duane can easily move south a few miles to Windsor, Ontario.
Looks to me like America is held together by flyover country
It is interesting that most of the comments are critical of the article, and the Democrat comments seem to be from a few people posting again and again. As far as I read, which wasn’t too far because it was rather repetitious.
The author of this piece should get on a plane and visit America sometime.
Yeah, I looked at that FB page, too. Probably the same person. And I agree with your assessment.
Start taking down the names of these elitist pricks. When the spit hits the spam, they will be the first to go.
The political problem of city-state vs. country-state is as old as civilization itself.
that’s because it is an absurd statement. I love New York and I dislike its politics very much. But I know the Heartland is what keeps the country going.
You’re a spring chicken; my values are more 1780 (If you don’t pay taxes, you don’t vote; we’ll leave that to those invested in this young republic...)
I guess you some how failed to learn about Auto manufacturing in the current age.
If you were well read, you would know that Mexico has attracted the major vehicle manufacturers and their various suppliers and has become established as a major auto manufacturing nation. The Vehicles produced are small and not expensive. They are made for the export markets in Africa and South America and where ever else they can be sold.
Meanwhile in South Carolina and Alabama and Kentucky and Texas, World Class larger and more expensive and better auto manufacturers from Germany, South Korea and Japan have built shiny new manufacturing facilities and churn out new cars and trucks. The jobs from these new and extremely efficient companies and their suppliers out way by far the jobs Ford will require making cheap and for americans, unacceptable export cars.
Some here throw around the term globalists having no clue to what it means. They fear apparently above all global government that is not really happening. What is happening is global integration of business that is in fact producing products for people all over the world.
The business of America is business
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