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Middle America Is Dying Hard
Hot Air ^ | February 27, 2024 | Salena Zito

Posted on 02/27/2024 11:30:04 AM PST by george76

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1 posted on 02/27/2024 11:30:04 AM PST by george76
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Keep voting democrat and in a few years, you’ll wish we were back to these days, bad as they are now.


2 posted on 02/27/2024 11:34:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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3 posted on 02/27/2024 11:37:25 AM PST by BipolarBob (I identify as a Christian Nationalist. Joe Biden hates me.)
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To: george76

Single industry towns have always lived on the brink. One change in technology, one misstep my management, boom.


4 posted on 02/27/2024 11:39:43 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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Barack Hussein Obama ...mmmm.mmmm.mmmm...forced a coal plant in my state to shut down (180 jobs lost) and replace it with power fueled by existing "clean burning natural gas" plants (that were used only for reserve power until recently). The idea then was that "clean burning" natural gas would save us from our carbon sins.

Then racist Joe Biden, in his first week in office, worked against the great Obama's vision for natural gas and proclaimed natural gas as what's killing us all. Biden issued multiple EO's to make it harder to drill for natural gas. That made both my natural gas bill shoot up as well as my power bill (fuel costs born by the power company are passed onto the consumer in a per kWh rate rider).

5 posted on 02/27/2024 11:40:25 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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“Brauer said the dignity of work is at the very core of the American experience, “Yet the elites of this country still just don’t understand, while average Americans just keep getting financially squeezed more and more.””

They understand perfectly. They despise you and are deliberately destroying you. It’s you that doesn’t understand... yet.


6 posted on 02/27/2024 11:44:23 AM PST by whatexit (Biden is an unmanned drone. )
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Biden just introduced another particulate emission change that will require a six fold reduction.

That should just abolute do it for the rest of the industrial sector in the USA.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/epa-has-tightened-its-target-for-deadly-particle-pollution-states-need-more-tools-to-reach-it/ar-BB1iI5Al


7 posted on 02/27/2024 11:45:03 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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There was a “ conservative” guy at National Review a few years ago who wrote about how these towns “deserved to die.” Like she said, these voters are there for the taking but the GOP has no clue.

Seeing it now in Ohio, where Sherrod Brown is going to coast to re-election in the Senate. Not because he ever did anything, but because he has ads showing old farts telling us “Sherrod Brown gave me back my dignity.”


8 posted on 02/27/2024 11:45:37 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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‘Middle America is dying hard’

No Schiff !
only an idjit would deny that is the plan .

-fJRoberts-


9 posted on 02/27/2024 11:48:43 AM PST by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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FREE.TRAITORS.DONT.CARE.


10 posted on 02/27/2024 11:49:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Yes, Freepers hate blue collar workers. Its obivous.


11 posted on 02/27/2024 11:50:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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”Honestly, how many times does this story have to be told before someone in power cares about our lives."

People in power will NEVER care about your life, until you make them. And if you can’t make them, then welcome to the “new normal”.

12 posted on 02/27/2024 11:53:10 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: discostu

Yeah, that’s one way of looking at it.


13 posted on 02/27/2024 11:59:55 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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Nope. Don’t hate anybody. Just pointing out reality.


14 posted on 02/27/2024 12:00:54 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

You mean the REAL way to look at it. Company towns have had issues like this for as long as there have been company towns. If the company has issues the town suffers. Towns that have more than 1 company, preferably more than 1 industry, have more elasticity and durability.


15 posted on 02/27/2024 12:02:24 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: george76

Bkmk


16 posted on 02/27/2024 12:08:39 PM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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One job lost is a tragedy; 10,000 jobs is a statistic.


17 posted on 02/27/2024 12:10:05 PM PST by Bernard ("It ain't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” Twain)
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“Middle America” == racist Democrat dog-whistle code for “White”. Therefore they couldn’t be happier that it’s dying.

But urban racist ghettos/barrios are not just dying, they’re already dead in the vast majority of cases. So what does that leave?

Suburbs, but the ones which look like “Middle America” aren’t *allowed* to look that way for long and they end up inevitably going ghetto too. Very slowly in some cases, but inevitably nonetheless.

Opening the border wide and inviting the invasion of criminals and other sewage couldn’t possibly have an adverse effect on any of this, fortunately. /s


18 posted on 02/27/2024 12:10:35 PM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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“One change in technology, one misstep my management ....”

And one 3rd world country that can make stuff cheaper than we can.


19 posted on 02/27/2024 12:11:09 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: discostu

You’ve managed to be 100% correct, while missing the point completely.


20 posted on 02/27/2024 12:11:40 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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