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. Theyre overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasnt 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. Theyre proficient at dog-whistle propaganda, and since the mid-1980s, theyve 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 peoples protests from Occupy to #NoDAPL. Their old standbys are opposing a womans right to choose, reinstituting school prayer and eradicating "big government." They hate progress. Their idea of American values is straight from circa 1870.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If we weren’t sure before we’re sure now - they understand nothing about us but nonetheless, they sure do hate us.
The “flyover states” need to step into the urban ones and clean the mess up.
I have to wonder if half the votes cast in urban areas are legitimate. There certainly seems to be no effort made whatsoever to verify or guarantee the integrity of elections in many urban areas; with the open encouragement of illegal voting, urban election results should probably not be treated as legitimate.
We’re racist, fascist, homophobe and transgenderphobe - we’re just rednecks in the sticks.
I’m a Trump voter living in rural Colorado. I fit the description and my values are circa 1870. I wear them with pride.
Poor Duane Townsend feels sorry for me. He can save it - after what liberalism has done to America, rolling it back is progress.
No wonder he’s full of bile, rage and resentment at the election result of November 8, 2016. With or without his help, America Will Be Great Again.
Let that stick in his craw.
I’ve been thinking that for a while now. Partitioning the country is the only way to “get along” with them. It’s that, or the unthinkable alternative.
I think we need to have a new Noble Prize. The Nobel Prize in Stupidity These people in the Fake Media are setting new world records in stupidity every day. This isnt parody, it isnt satire, this is what passes for thoughtful rational commentary in the Media.
Consider the facts. Without what this obnoxious child calls “flyover land” this moron would be sitting in the dark, starving, freezing to death, in a ill built wooden building.
The other unmentioned elephant in the room is that the US Senate, the House of Representatives and most of the state governments are controlled by Republicans, which is more indicative of the true, overall will of the people. Screeds like this one decrying the author's fellow Americans for being so regressive only focus on the Presidential election, and ignore the bigger picture.
Which is what you would expect from liberal "intellectuals".
Yes....
but then it wouldn't follow the model of Versailles would it?
"...Versailles was the seat of political power in the Kingdom of France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved the royal court from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789, within three months after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime...."
Why you'd have lonely isolated bureaucrats deprived of the opportunities of conniving, plotting, spreading rumors, and currying favors from the more powerful bureaucrats/mandarins, and free lunches, dinners, and parties.
Where's the fun in that? How would one know where one stands in the hierarchy?
Damned boring just doing the job you were hired for.
The suburbs and rural parts of blue states are red, too.
How much would the tall blue towers be missed?
Boston’s Fox affiliate WFXT 25 is supposedly de-emphasizing the Fox in its nickname, news coverage, etc because supposedly people confuse them with Fox News Channel.Supposedly people are complaining.Their news show ratings
are sliding as it is.No idea if they decide to unaffiliate with Fox.(Station owned by Cox Comm.;had been owned by Fox
but News Corp swapped them to Cox so Fox
could own a station in San Fran...49ers games etc (what is Kaepernick’s team now, 1 and 12 or something?)
Both areas deep blue.
What a sick, arrogant, twisted ass. We have been hostage to the likes of Carter, Clinton, Obama for years. I have been hostage to supporting lazy, demanding nonworkers eating my taxes and destroying my country for years. This idiot needs to look around at his city Detroit and see what liberals have done.
I have been forced against my will to watch half naked gays march in the street. I have been forced to use their political correctness or be vilified. Give me hardworking Christians who love the Constitution and their country any day and let me be free.
Considering the blue bastion tend to match large concentrations of Federal Government building, probably very little.
“The term wasnt commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.”
Ha, I first heard the term in the early 1990s. The liberal elites scorned us long before anybody outside of Illinois had heard of Obama.
Yes, DC needs decentralization. It would stop the mash up on the eastern seaboard. And the jobs might be redistributed...I’d like to hear non-black voices once in awhile when I call a US gov site. I bet there are whites who could do the job, too.
And speaking of jobs...it would be great to work for the USDA our in the field. Mostly they don’t exist anywhere close to where I live.
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I see there’s only one state in the union that PE Trump didn’t win a single county... Massachusetts. I thought he’d have a chance in Plymouth county, but it wasn’t to be.
“Flyover country” first used in 1980 ...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160314-flyover-country-origin-language-midwest/
Duane Townsend is definite proof that Detroit has lead in their water.
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