America’s Ruling Class by Angelo Codevilla
And
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Liberals get it wrong because the truth means nothing to them - see Tagline. Agenda is everything to them.
Their claim, if I understand psychotic leftists, is that if you aren’t soft on crime then you are an authoritarian and a threat to the country.
What are the chances these authors, from New York, have ever been to - or talked to anyone from - the midwest?
All of this is sneering speculation about an area and group of people they know nothing about.
For those who don’t read the article:
The author criticizes another author’s book that assumes all rural whites are racist/homophobe/etc. rubes who vote Republican because they are racist/homophobe/etc. rubes.
The author accepts the premise that they are all racist/homophobe/etc. rubes but says they also vote Republican because of their location and the resulting tendency to be self-reliant.
The author also points out that rural whites are fools who don’t understand that Democrat policies are really good for them.
(How did I do at summarizing?)
The Left’s support is concentrated in urban areas.
“White Rural Rage”, both the book and concept, is an operation to isolate, demonize, and destroy those who resist totalitarianism. Democrats rely on division and projection as favored tactics.
Compare crime rates for America’s rural areas versus big cities to quickly see who is enraged and dangerous.
Liberals get everything about the right wrong.
They are tilting at windmills.
They are fighting their fabricated image of what they think conservatives and rural folks are all about. It has no basis in reality.
Am I white?
-yes
Am I rural?
-yes
Is there anything wrong with that? NO! (your food depends on me, unless you like eating bugs)
I am FEELING triggered.
Is that ‘rage’?
I think the left is confirming THEY are the racist, and, at the same time, classist.
In other words THEY are not acknowledging the constitutional right to property. And they are at the same time acknowledging that THEY
,,, are
,,, “Communist”
-period-
This is the point of civil war.
Where does one even begin with this nonsense? For starters maybe the urban dwellers need to ask themselves what they do and how their attitudes toward their fellow citizens contribute to the urban v rural divide.
In California when city folks send a dollar to Washington, DC, they get back on average .74 of that dollar for their community. Taxpayers in rural California send $1 to DC and they only get back .17 on average. How is this fair? Why should rural America be on the hook for bailing out and fixing the city problems that are totally caused by the voters in those cities and their policies? Sacramento is the same. Tax everyone in the state but spends the bulk of the revenue on the urban areas while saddling rural areas with costly regulations.
Someone also needs to tell these bozos that “white rural America” is just as likely to be hispanic, black and asian rural America and they are just as angry as their white neighbors if not more so.
Jimmy Dore had a great piece on these rediculous phoookers.
They state the obvious case why, then circle and spin around it like blind mice.
Like a comedy sketch, if it wasn’t so revealing.
I’ve seen this trick before. Substitute Southerners 50 years ago for “rural Americans” today and you get exactly the same. The same arrogance from elitist, (mostly Yankee) urban leftists. The same insistence that they know best and they have all the answers. The same at first thinly disguised and then not even disguised at all contempt they have for them. Its all the same.
They steadfastly REFUSE to listen to any of their concerns.
They spew non stop bile at them....call them stupid, backward and hateful and otherwise put them down every single last chance they get - then turn right around and wonder why they can’t get these people to trust them or vote for them.
Keep it up, idiots.
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.
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.