Exactly.
From the message board:
The truely sad thing of it is, those who put Bush back in office are the same ones being fleeced by his policies. Look at Ohio, which lost huge jobs, yet still gave its 20 to him. The military has large recruiment out of rural areas as well, and no wonder, when their schools are so bad and families so poor there aren't many options for the future..
The rural culture is very isolated and not particularly nomadic. People there believe strongly in their families and they hold tight to religious and moral values. Religion is indeed the opium of the people. It can be (and has been) twisted and manipulated in order to manipulate culture. But at the same time how we can we deny people the right to believe what they want?
I wish I knew what we could do exactly. One thing is for sure though. The USA is the biggest empire the world has ever seen, and the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
How much you wanna bet the poster of those comments has never spent much time in a rural community? I'm sure they consider driving through Nebraska on I-80 with no stops as experiencing rural culture.
I'm amazed at the number of my co-workers, friends, etc that have no clue what rural life is like. And how arrogant they are about it. Yet, they know it all. Whatever.
Religion is indeed the opium of the people.
Spoken like a true communist. Didn't this idiots political ideals kill over 100 million past in the past century?
The latest DNC drumbeat is that people vote Republican "in spite of what is in their best interest". They don't vote for socialists who would "help" them (by allocating their money before they get it, remember the Clintons said that the American public would just waste their money any way). They stand firm on issues of social conservativism like opposition to abortion and the homosexual agenda (because of religious conviction).
Looks like this poster on Dara's board, has expanded on marx's quote.
Following hillary's lead, IMO, to look more "conservative". People on FR will probably see more of this type of rheotoric(and the bad part is some will buy it) from the left in the next 4 years.
Thank you, Howlin, for bolding and pointing that out in your reply #47.