White rural rage: The secret political force shaping America's future
By Thom Hartmann
>Rural white voters have, in many cases, far more political power than suburban or urban voters, and they’re using that outsized power to push our nation toward disaster.
>The authors of new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy point out that rural whites are measurably more bigoted and xenophobic than suburban or urban voters, 13 points more likely to hate on queer people, 15 points more likely to support Trump’s Muslim ban.
>The majority of rural white voters disagree with the statement (or have no opinion) that “diversity makes America stronger.”
>Instead of offering help or solutions to rural problems, the GOP and conservative media instead feed them a steady diet of xenophobic and racist fear and hate.
>And they eat it up! The racist buffoons among them are one and a half times more likely to be QAnon followers than people who live in cities or suburbs.
>One of the most chilling quotes from the book is about how rural voters are willing to both abandon democracy and embrace a violent rightwing coup:
>“[R]ural Americans are more likely to believe that ‘it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government.’ Indeed, more than one out of four rural residents agree that Trump should be returned to office by force if necessary.”
>The Biden administration has done more for rural America than any president since Lyndon Johnson rolled out Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps.
>Rural Americans are nine times more likely to lack access to affordable child care*, so Biden’s program allocated $39 billion for subsidies for child care providers, with the money disproportionately going to rural communities.
*(It's called having a mom)
>Will rural voters ever wake up to how badly they’re being screwed now and have been screwed by Republicans ever since Reagan started the whole neoliberal austerity and free trade movement that shipped over 60,000 factories and 20 million jobs overseas?
(wait… so globalism is bad now? Well golly gee! Let's end it together, mr. journalist guy!)
>While the media struggles with trying to “understand” the rural white voter every election cycle, instead they should be running stories on how the very real problems and crises of rural America are daily made worse by Republicans in Congress and at the helm of their Red States.
>How to break through?
I can answer that; By telling us that White people are evil and also that we don't even exist. Except when we are to blame for all the problems blacks and jews experience. Oh, and also by making sure that as many grotesque trannies are made schoolteachers and have power over their children.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-rural-rage-the-secret-political-force-shaping-americas-future-opinion/ar-BB1llAUJ
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