Posted on 04/06/2024 6:20:07 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
“who shook the jar”
The “social scientists” never learned the secret of when “science” is useless—when it studies something more intelligent that it is.
A U of MD university system employee made it an easy commute to the studio. And yes, he is prototypical leftist arrogant.
Wow, what an over simplified pack of generalizations! What Liberals can’t understand or won’t accept they then demonize as un-American. And since you can’t argue with a sick mind reconciliation becomes exceedingly more difficult.
They blame the Kulaks for their problems
“Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller suggest that since authoritarianism predicted support for Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primaries, and rural residents support Trump, rural residents are the most likely to be authoritarian.“
Authoritarian means Central planning or we know what’s best for you. Same old. Same old. Doesn’t work but the Democrats won’t listen.
“I heard the doves cooing this morning, the bird of peace.”
But those were rural doves, not city pigeons.
Smith was generally good. But even he had some shibboleth touchstones.
It’s one of the best moments of my day when I sit on the front porch, drinking a cup of coffee, after I’ve fed and watered my cattle, to hear the doves and bobwhite quail sing. No rage in me at all. Pretty hard to have any rage or hatred in moments like that.
There was only one Rush Limbaugh
I appreciate the author’s overall point, but the dude is a leftist. So he doesn’t quite comprehend that rural folks tend to be more traditional in morals and values. We don’t want the shiny new government handout or program if it must come packaged with a healthy dose of woke propaganda and mandatory “strings attached”. We categorically reject a “Deal with the Devil” approach that the swamp promises.
Best part: Free Helicopter Rides!
The “White Rural Rage” authors are incapable of understanding this. They do not get why rural people would oppose Biden’s mega-spending when (supposedly—I’m not convinced this claim is true) a larger proportion of the waste goes to “rural” areas. It’s because we aren’t for sale; we don’t want the spending and we don’t want whatever it was being spent/wasted on.
Ron Smith was a local talk show host. Generally good, but there were times I had to turn him off.
Our state (CT) is a good example.
The rural areas are heavily subsidized by the state.
But—then the legislature does stuff like mandate tampons in school boys rooms—and they wonder why we think they are nuts.
fundamental change is comin’ to America.
The problem does indeed boil down to “who is shaking the jar”, but just as significant is the question of who inside the jar adopts the external reasons the jar is being shaken which is setting the inhabitants inside against each other.
It is clear to me that the external reasons are a mixture of Marxism, greed, and lust for power, which are readily embraced by a subset of the population within the jar.
Rural populations include much higher rates of homeowners - so they directly pay for local services (at least here in NJ). Urban areas include many tenants who often don’t see the direct line between local costs and local rents (especially of there is rent control - because there is no such line).
The permanent underclass avoids rural areas because much of the “free” sh!t disappears; people need to be more involved in providing for themselves than you’d see in urban areas.
“It’s because we aren’t for sale; we don’t want the spending and we don’t want whatever it was being spent/wasted on.”
This was why many areas opposed Obama’s plan to hire so many new teachers early on; his party is the political arm of the teachers’ unions, so naturally he wanted more of them (contributions from taxpayers are transferred directly to Dems through that union). The problem was he offered fed money for the first year or two, then the hosts had to feed the parasites themselves - and (at least here in NJ) they are VERY EXPENSIVE (for 180 days of work - not even 9-5).
“Plenty of delicious rats and cockroaches in NYC.
Don’t know how nutritious the bedbugs are though.”
Lol! I hear they are as nutritious as ticks, and like ticks you have to keep the temperature real low or you’ll have popcorn.
These idiots don’t care or even understand the correlation between rural food production and city grocery stores - I am NOT exaggerating. Surely you have seen the newspaper column where a woman was against killing animals for food, when you could just go to your local grocery store instead!
And this is not the first time the city vs. rural has been used to create division and Communism; Pol Pot took the city folk and forced them into the fields and the rural people he forced into the cities - it is believed 2.25 million Cambodians faced starvation due to their inability to produce enough food to feed his revolution!!
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