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SNOBBERY: Millionaire Paul Krugman Browbeats Americans Filled with ‘Rural Rage’
NewsBusters ^ | 1/30/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 01/30/2023 2:02:36 PM PST by JV3MRC

New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman went on a tone-deaf rant against rural Americans who are fed up with Washington, D.C. elites making their lives miserable.

Krugman’s Jan. 26 drivel, headlined “Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage,” bemoaned that rural Americans have shifted so far to the right that loyal Democrats supposedly “face intimidation and are afraid to reveal their party affiliation.” Krugman exploited the findings of political scientist Katherine J. Cramer that reportedly tied “rural resentment” to “perceptions that rural areas are ignored by policymakers, don’t get their fair share of resources and are disrespected by ‘city folks.’” Krugman squawked that “all three perceptions [by rural Americans] are largely wrong. I’m sure that my saying this will generate a tidal wave of hate mail, and lecturing rural Americans about policy reality isn’t going to move their votes.” Krugman, whose net worth is $5 million, clearly has an acute aversion to not sounding pompous when he’s “lecturing” rural plebeians.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; economy; farmers; nyt; paulkrugman; redneck; rural; ruralamerica
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1 posted on 01/30/2023 2:02:36 PM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Yo, paulee——🖕


2 posted on 01/30/2023 2:04:06 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: JV3MRC

He finds the peasants revolting.


3 posted on 01/30/2023 2:05:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: JV3MRC
Making total war on the people who grow your food, Krugman?

I'm a city boy myself, but even I know better than that.

4 posted on 01/30/2023 2:05:52 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: JV3MRC

Let me give the Readers’ Digest version: “shut the F’ up, serf’s, and feed your masters!”


5 posted on 01/30/2023 2:06:46 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: JV3MRC
A real economist would understand the reasonable man standard. Rural America is just acting in its best interest…

This hypothetical person referred to as the reasonable/prudent man exercises average care, skill, and judgment in conduct that society requires of its members for the protection of their own and of others' interests.

6 posted on 01/30/2023 2:17:27 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: JV3MRC

“perceptions that rural areas are ignored by policymakers”

That’s because they are.


7 posted on 01/30/2023 2:24:04 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: JV3MRC

...and Paul Krugman gets another Soros paycheck.


8 posted on 01/30/2023 2:29:15 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: JV3MRC

Lake Superior is very deep and very cold.

The deserts are very hot and very vast.

Krugscam needs to understand that.


9 posted on 01/30/2023 2:40:27 PM PST by crz
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To: ClearCase_guy

https://youtu.be/-nEADNwXSEw


10 posted on 01/30/2023 2:46:40 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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elitism in the context of human worth/interest is utterly abhorrent. I suppose that’s what makes a Rat a rat


11 posted on 01/30/2023 2:47:56 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JV3MRC

I think it was Orwell that said, ‘Some things are so stupid that only a scholar can believe them”.


12 posted on 01/30/2023 2:48:52 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: JV3MRC

I think it was Orwell that said, ‘Some things are so stupid that only a scholar can believe them”.


13 posted on 01/30/2023 2:48:52 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: Salman

In general, urban water supply, electricity supply, and food supply are entirely dependent upon the good graces of people who do not live in the city.


14 posted on 01/30/2023 2:51:10 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: JV3MRC

Another POS who should get the same treatment as his overlords.


15 posted on 01/30/2023 2:53:00 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78

Is the Bronx where the rich elite hang out? do the rural poor use more food stamps than the urban poor?


16 posted on 01/30/2023 2:55:27 PM PST by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: JV3MRC

That fraud can’t open his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.


17 posted on 01/30/2023 2:55:41 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: brookwood

I dare say the rural poor are far more self-sufficient than the urban poor.


18 posted on 01/30/2023 2:56:33 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: brookwood

Krugman is complaining that rural residents don’t pay as much in taxes as urban residents ( if this is true I don’t know). however there are certain other groups that also don’t pay as much in taxes, on average. Throwing stones in a glass house for a liberal.


19 posted on 01/30/2023 2:57:32 PM PST by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: JV3MRC

The elites howl out in pain as they strike you.


20 posted on 01/30/2023 3:00:35 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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