He discusses something that has also long irritated me, and that is the claims by GOP politicians that ‘real’ Americans are those that live in the middle parts of the country in rural areas, as if the vast majority who live in cities and the coastal areas count for less.
This is part of a more general pattern. GOP politicians seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to sneer at big cities and the diverse array of people who live in them as somehow being less worthy, while reacting with outrage if any Democratic politician even slightly disparages rural white America.
For all their convictions, they seem to fold easily when facing real consequences… 😂
BOMBSHELL: Longtime Trump ally cooperates AGAINST Trump ahead of criminal trial.
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=E1YXhcNceYg
The real americans -- are the descendants of thise who came across the Bering Strait 75,000 years ago. (Number probably not accurate)
As one comedian said: “It’s not as if England sent its best people.” Mostly rifraff and adventurers of the most amoral and vicious sort. Just ask the surviving real americans. There were several million inhabitants of the americas when the europeans arrived, and now small clusters of survivors are concentrated in reservations. Or walled off at the borders.
During the pandemic there were dozens of breathless reports of young adults moving to the midwest for free or low-cost homes, offered up by the small towns to prop up the declining population. A lot of them moved right back out because of the prejudice and discrimination from the locals, who wanted the tax base to increase but hate anyone whose grandparents weren’t born there.
I’m not a politician but even in my complete lack of influence I’ve received push back in my contempt for rural and small town folk and their outsized influence on politics. Apparently thinking that a farmer’s vote shouldn’t count for more than mine is a bad thing.
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“They are the salt of the land. You know…morons”.
Methinks many are still angry about “the Northern war of aggression”.
“sneer at big cities and the diverse array of people who live in them as somehow being less worthy”
I believe this is one of the observations in “White Rural Rage” by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman: that rural Americans are seen as nobler, more truly American than other people. And almost as a corollary, it makes sense that Republican messaging is basically just railing against cities and blaming them for everything wrong with the country.
Delegitimizing the opposition is one of the hallmarks of fascism. You can also see this with Republicans holding up maps showing the big, wide red areas compared to the smaller, blue cities whenever they lose a presidential election or lose a house of congress. The message is clear, even when they win elections, Democrats lack a mandate to pass legislation affecting “Real Americans”.