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No Longer Fringe, small-town voters fear democracy's demise
apnews ^ | 11/30/2022

Posted on 11/30/2022 5:15:08 AM PST by devane617

A word -- “Hope” -- is stitched onto a throw pillow in the little hilltop farmhouse. Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls. In the kitchen, an envelope is decorated with a hand-drawn heart. “Happy Birthday, My Love,” it reads.

Out front, past a pair of century-old cottonwoods, the neighbors’ cornfields reach into the distance.

John Kraft loves this place. He loves the quiet and the space. He loves that you can drive for miles without passing another car.

But out there? Out beyond the cornfields, to the little western Wisconsin towns turning into commuter suburbs, and to the cities growing ever larger?

Out there, he says, is a country that many Americans wouldn’t recognize.

It’s a dark place, dangerous, where freedom is under attack by a tyrannical government, few officials can be trusted and clans of neighbors might someday have to band together to protect one another. It’s a country where the most basic beliefs -- in faith, family, liberty -- are threatened.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: death
Interesting read.
1 posted on 11/30/2022 5:15:08 AM PST by devane617
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To: devane617

I didn’t know Ron Johnson dabbled in conspiracy theories? What a bunch of bull.


2 posted on 11/30/2022 5:19:21 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: devane617

It reads like a National Geographic report.

“The apeman conservative was surprisingly intelligent. He did not immediately kill brown people, like his kind is prone to do. He could speak in complete sentences. Despite his primitive ways, he ate yogurt and drove a Tesla.”


3 posted on 11/30/2022 5:24:23 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: HighSierra5

Ron Johnson is not the problem. AP is the problem, and CNN, MSNBC nut cases, and the like. They are not bystanders in this like this article implies. They have taken an active role in elections by backing and supporting radical leftist politicians and demonizing the other side. And maybe some of those conspiracy theories are actually true. They often turn out to be.


4 posted on 11/30/2022 5:30:00 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: HighSierra5

It sounds like the AP found a guy who sits on the fence and not sure which side to jump off on. So he sits there and says stupid things like “If the Muslims wanted to build a mosque, let them, it’s the American way”. Sorry, but after 9/11, there is no way many folks want a mosque in their little town. Either than or they are unaware of how the Muslims operate.


5 posted on 11/30/2022 5:33:54 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: virgil

We need to pick better candidates in the primary. We had two better candidates in Pennsylvania but chose a guy from New Jersey. Lol. I mean Pennsylvanians love jersey people. Ha! And Walker is ok, but now we find out he lives in Texas at least for homestead purposes. Come on! At least chose someone from the state.


6 posted on 11/30/2022 6:00:06 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: JoJo354
AP = Always Propaganda

What the AP’s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-news -

FR Comments:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3959761/posts

7 posted on 11/30/2022 6:12:43 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: napscoordinator

We need to run MAGA candidates in EVERY party.


8 posted on 11/30/2022 6:14:06 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: devane617

Interesting read.

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Agree but a lot of folks don’t see/view these small out of
the way communities that exist. Life is different for sure.


9 posted on 11/30/2022 6:21:13 AM PST by deport
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To: devane617

The Left is killing Freedom everywhere


10 posted on 11/30/2022 6:28:02 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: virgil

What is the MSM and Left wanting to accomplish? What will it look like? What is their utopia? Is there a line the Left will not cross?


11 posted on 11/30/2022 6:48:41 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: devane617

I prefer freedom and liberty over Marxist “democrazy”. The crap the far left is pimping has failed every time it’s been tried. “Refugees” running from Marxist “democrazy” is the reason we are being invaded from the south.


12 posted on 11/30/2022 6:59:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: Jewbacca
It reads like a National Geographic report....

Rural Wisconsin here. That piece was the most sickening thing I've encountered from the MSM in a while. These elites really believe this crap. This is how they really see the world.

13 posted on 11/30/2022 8:08:11 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

P


14 posted on 11/30/2022 8:12:45 AM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God))
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To: mewzilla
“It’s no longer left versus right, Democrat versus Republican,” says Kraft, a software architect and data analyst. “It’s straight up good versus evil.”

Absocottonpickinlutely.

15 posted on 11/30/2022 8:27:37 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gloryblaze; Liz; All

“Rural Wisconsin here.”

Me, too. SW corner of our state, near the Mighty Mississippi River, across from Iowa. :)

Hudson, WI is filled with filthy Socialists. A lot of them live in Hudson, WI (for affordable housing) but work in factories in Minneapolis, Minnesotastan.

The guy in the article probably IS the last Conservative in Hudson, watching as it rots around him. :(


16 posted on 11/30/2022 8:29:18 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: devane617

Not democracy’s demise but Liberty demise.


17 posted on 11/30/2022 8:43:50 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: devane617

It’s ASS. Press.💩


18 posted on 11/30/2022 9:47:16 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: devane617

You can just feel the pain of this AP writer, having to talk to these hicks in order to write this astonished essay of how backward they are.


19 posted on 11/30/2022 10:51:49 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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