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"White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" (Book)
White Rual Rage.com ^ | 02 28 2024 | Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman

Posted on 02/28/2024 9:29:14 AM PST by yesthatjallen

"White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.

Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans’ attitude might best be described as “I love my country, but not our country,” Schaller and Waldman argue. This phenomenon is the patriot paradox of rural America: The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles. And by stoking rural Whites’ anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, conservative politicians and talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are undermining American democracy.

Schaller and Waldman provocatively critique both the structures that permit rural Whites’ disproportionate influence over American governance and the prospects for creating a pluralist, inclusive democracy that delivers policy solutions that benefit rural communities. They conclude with a political reimagining that offers a better future for both rural people and the rest of America."


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: americademocracy; rural; ruralamerica
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To: yesthatjallen

The greatest threat....to left-wing control over the entire populace.


21 posted on 02/28/2024 10:08:08 AM PST by simpson96
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To: packagingguy

“So learn your lesson from me...don’t go on Sunday drives in the countryside or the white people will kill you.”

You’re lucky you weren’t in Amish country, or they would have killed you deader.


22 posted on 02/28/2024 10:09:00 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Qiviut; Travis McGee
Matt Bracken AKA Travis McGee has some wise words in his writings. When things go bad in society, you want to be in a place where the people are just like you. The green golf ball on the green grass. You don't want to "stick out" from the rest of the community.
23 posted on 02/28/2024 10:11:46 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

The icing on the cake is that we have 20-25 family members within 10 miles or so. They are constantly offering to help - what do you need? The house also has a full basement, perfect for “prepping” & keeping the fact that you’re doing so quiet.


24 posted on 02/28/2024 10:15:42 AM PST by Qiviut (If the genocide was unintentional, they would have pulled the poison vaccines, long ago.)
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To: brownsfan
They are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.

The "norms" they are referring to are republicans loosing elections and going along with all the irresponsible polices the democrats push forward. It was so easy to govern when the reps simply were the controlled opposition.

They lament the loss of their power since "the good old days" have ended.

25 posted on 02/28/2024 10:21:17 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Threat to Libtardism


26 posted on 02/28/2024 10:25:43 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: yesthatjallen

Substitute “resolve” for “rage”. We’ll do what we must do when the time comes. We are prepared for action — mentally, physically, and SPIRITUALLY — and we won’t waver.


27 posted on 02/28/2024 10:26:23 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Sounds like a rehash of What's the Matter with Kansas?
28 posted on 02/28/2024 10:34:19 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Colt1851Navy

Yes


29 posted on 02/28/2024 10:40:49 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hmmm... needs the word “rage” more.


30 posted on 02/28/2024 10:45:17 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: yesthatjallen

A much more accurate title for the book would be “A Crock of Shit!!!”


31 posted on 02/28/2024 10:46:36 AM PST by PortugeeJoe (amerivca')
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To: yesthatjallen

Replace “White” with “Black” and “Republican” with “Democrat.”


32 posted on 02/28/2024 10:47:28 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Is this satire??? The democrats have been using these same shibboleths with their victim groups for generations. But they never pass up a chance to bash whitey. Racism is all the rage for democrats. Always has been, always will be.


33 posted on 02/28/2024 11:04:03 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If “White Rural Rage” is so bad, why are the blacks and the crazy “rappers” moving to Nashville and taking over Country music?


34 posted on 02/28/2024 11:40:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I know only one way to piss off the far-left RATSOs. Laugh at them.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rural rage.. It could be said... and here is why people out here are angry..

WE had a nation. We fought wars and won. We fed the nations of the world. We took in those who asked to come to America. We had a nation.. the best in the world.
This nation was put together by wise men who went to the Bible for guidance on how to be successful with a piece of land worth the effort.
The first who came on ships, many sick.. coming to a land they knew not..they came for freedom!!
The anger out here? These men who would label is.. they are not patriotic Americans.. they are like barry obama who wants to fundamentally change this nation.
what is wrong with this nation that it should be changed from bottom up.. the very roots of our country.. fundamentally.. to what?
Their idea is to make it so they can rule.. can control..and the Constitution has to be put aside.. or done away with.. because the constitution puts limits on their plans. Folks, they write this stuff. . rural white rage.. what a phrase!!
rural is who feeds this country with planting and harvesting.. rural are the people who have their feet on the ground and work more than a 12 hr day, every day.
white.. labeling by race
angry. yes, I am angry at those who would change the world to suit their greed. I would like to see the kids live without the dirt and pressure they face today. I would like for the government to let me live with my freedoms and stop the commie plans.
Castro came to town riding in open convertible, after defeating batista. crowds cheered, following. A few days later, castro was on TV telling about his “fundamentally changing Cuba”.. he said he is a communist.. took all guns.. disarmed the people.. took control of all property.. the people no longer owned their homes, no longer owned their business and no longer owned their children.. all schools were turned over to government control.

Before you vote for a democrat... admit.. see.. what they have in store for you.


35 posted on 02/28/2024 11:52:07 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: yesthatjallen

If betrayal, treason, and national destruction don’t get people worked up into a rage, then there is no hope.

That is Leftist strategy: Demonize before it occurs what will be the natural outcome of their treachery.


36 posted on 02/28/2024 12:09:44 PM PST by odawg
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To: brownsfan

See Zimbabwe or South Africa
Rejection of Western Civilization and its norms lead to disaster of epic proportion.


37 posted on 02/28/2024 12:51:00 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: packagingguy

Are you sure you didn’t get that from Goolag Gemini? 🤣


38 posted on 02/28/2024 1:27:37 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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