Posted on 03/01/2024 3:30:54 PM PST by CFW
“Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”
Fastball delivered, University of Maryland professor and co-author of just-released White Rural Rage: The Threat To American Democracy Tom Schaller took a swing. He and Mika first complained rural voters should be supporting Joe Biden, given his roots — you’d have to be pretty high to call Scranton “rural,” but whatever — then Schaller read off small town America’s charge sheet: rural whites, he said, are the most “racist,” “xenophobic,” “anti-immigrant and anti-gay,” “conspiracist,” “anti-democratic,” they “don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,” and are “most likely to accept or excuse violence,” for starters.
White Rural Rage, which I made the mistake of reading, is a vicious manifesto in the anti-populist tradition nailed by Thomas Frank in The People, No. When rural voters in the late 1800s defied New York banking interests and demanded currency reform to allow farmers an escape from one of the original “rigged games” in finance, relentless propaganda ensued. Rural populists were depicted as dirty, bigoted, ignorant. They refused expert wisdom, represented a “frantic challenge against every feature of our civilization,” and waged a “shameful insurrection against law and national honesty.” A populist caricature in Judge magazine showed a violent, destructive idiot, a real-life Lennie from still-unwritten Of Mice and Men, .....
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Nobel-winning columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times spent the last year telling “ignorant” Middle America its negative feelings about the economy are “demonstrably false,” because despite what their bank accounts or home evaluations might say, “Bidenomics is still working very well.” When White Rural Rage came out this week he rushed to review it, the intransigent refusal of yokels to accept his wisdom being his favored current hobby horse.
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“Maybe we should have a vote on it?”
They want to have a war on it....
Feeling is mutual.
I will address each of these one by one:
rural whites, he said, are the most “racist,”
nope, we are not racist at all, we want everyone to be judged by the content of their character not the color or their skin. Liberals are the ones pushing affirmative action racist quotas, and liberals are the ones trying to keep Asians out of colleges.
“xenophobic,” - not at all we love all people from all countries we simply wish those that want to come here to follow the rules and come legally.
“anti-immigrant - see above
and anti-gay,” - we are not anti gay, if some idiot wants to lick some other mans hairy butthole, I could care less. But they should get some mental evaluations and as for trans men “thinking” they are a woman... yeah.. that’s about as sane as thinking you are a tree! And stay the hell out of womens restrooms and sports if you have a penis!
“conspiracist,” - you mean like how GW Bush blew up the twin towers? or how Gore and Hillary actually won their elections? Or does it only count when conservatives take issue with elections?
“anti-democratic,” - not at all! we simply want to confirm that those who are voting are legally allowed to vote, are who they say they are and all the laws are followed. It is liberals who are trying to keep Kennedy off the ballot!
they “don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,”
we believe in free speech! It is liberals who try to shut down people who don’t use the correct pronounce when addressing the mentally ill
and are “most likely to accept or excuse violence,” Funny, liberals had no issue with violence when it was BLM, liberals had no issue with occupy wall street taking over the Wisconsin state capital for a month. But suddenly liberals care when some conservatives take some selfies in funny hats in the capital before calmly leaving when asked.
When I want his opinion I will slap it out of him.
(Am I kidding or not? Only my hairdresser knows for sure!)
Meadow Soprano: The San Francisco area has won more Nobel prizes than anywhere else in the country.
Tony Soprano: Nobel prize for what? Packin' fudge?
Whales a beautiful animals and have a function in the natural world. These folks don’t even clean up the scum on the bottom.
White Rural Rage. Who’da thought? And here I was focusing on all these urban POC who are committing the lion’s share of violent crime in this country, when the problem was Jim Bob and his 2011 Ford pickup truck that has been the main problem all along...
Yep. Every morning when they sign in.I
Yep. Ad hominem.
White rural rage? Well duh. This will happen after you crap all over people for years.
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In other words....serfs.
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire
Tom: "The serfs are revolting!"
Mika: "They certainly are.."
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BTTT
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Interns are dangerous too, right Joe?
Betting he doesn’t have a vegetable garden that forces him to face reality every day. Nothing like weather, bugs, and hungry critters to focus you on the difference between a weed and a carrot. Also makes you appreciate a fence. To quote my favorite rabbit, what an ultramaroon.
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