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92. Next weekend we're about to go visit my inlaws who live @the foothills of the Ozarks

Sat Aug 22, 2020, 08:50 PM

Aug 2020

a small town north of Little Rock, AR. They're 2 retired doctors living on a ranch raising horses. They tell me most everyone around them are Catholics whose families have lived in that area farming their land for over a hundred years. There is very little diversity, if any, and few people venture outside of their small community. If they do, it would be the young people who leave for college & jobs. The lack of diversity is one problem. The grievance politics that they've been left behind is the other. Those 2 problems combined
breeds a culture of resentment and hate. In the summer of 2016 before the fateful general election there were Trump signs all over the area. Will be interesting this Saturday if they're as many given 45 has screwed over farmers.

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fwiw: "You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri..." [View all] steve2470 Aug 2020 OP

So, they think we're weak. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #1

Bob Dylan...nt abakan Aug 2020 #24

Thank you! I couldn't remember. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #29

I'm a life long fan abakan Aug 2020 #30

Aw......thank you so much, my dear abakan! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #31

Kindness is what they hate mountain grammy Aug 2020 #68

Hey you two!!!!! MyOwnPeace Aug 2020 #78

good let's see more of it. abakan Aug 2020 #85

I saw him live Star-Thrower Aug 2020 #95

No Nasruddin Aug 2020 #48

Great summation! parhelion Aug 2020 #102

And then start putting their clan really leaders in prison. Volaris Aug 2020 #50

weak means uncertain to them. authoritarianism is measured with the Uncertainty Avoidance Index certainot Aug 2020 #58

And what'll you do now Star-Thrower Aug 2020 #93

Thank you so much, my dear Star-Thrower! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #94

Thank you Star-Thrower Aug 2020 #96

What a fascinating article! So much I didn't know about him. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #100

There are clusters of Americans that are not worth reaching. Yavin4 Aug 2020 #2

There are a lot of great universities in southern states too. yardwork Aug 2020 #13

Some yes, but they're not globally renowned like those in Mass, CA, NY, and Ill Yavin4 Aug 2020 #15

You are misinformed. yardwork Aug 2020 #20

There's blue bubbles around those universities AdamGG Aug 2020 #25

They have more in common with highly educated areas in other states DBoon Aug 2020 #74

In the larger, urban cities, yes. @the Ozarks it's mostly rural onetexan Aug 2020 #97

Next weekend we're about to go visit my inlaws who live @the foothills of the Ozarks onetexan Aug 2020 #92

Confused: SamKnause Aug 2020 #3

It's the opposite of looking up and down. Down up, up down, in out, here there. panader0 Aug 2020 #8

I'm sure it's just a typo dmr Aug 2020 #9

LOL - that's what I thought. Its a typo. They don't like being looked down UPON. n/t Peregrine Took Aug 2020 #53

Here's The Thing...We Actually Do Get It Me. Aug 2020 #4

Exactly. Really felt like"mansplaining" LakeArenal Aug 2020 #7

I think the target for the rant are people like those who write for the NY times editorial pages Blecht Aug 2020 #44

I still find it madly confounding as its antithetical to everything I was taught and beileve in. Peregrine Took Aug 2020 #59

I live an hour's drive away. Runningdawg Aug 2020 #5

Well said! smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #45

Fuck them! edhopper Aug 2020 #6

And that mindset comes from decades of listening to RW hate radio Liberal In Texas Aug 2020 #10

That's what is killing our democracy; hate radio, conspiracy tv.Fox, OANN, and Limbaugh. BComplex Aug 2020 #33

Bingo! The sooner Limpbiscuit is deepsixed by his cancer the better. One less RW foulmouth onetexan Aug 2020 #98

Exactly and totally. Hate radio VALIDATED them. calimary Aug 2020 #34

A lot of the shit they hear on the radio LuvNewcastle Aug 2020 #75

I too live in the Ozarks, I know what that person is talking about The Genealogist Aug 2020 #11

Toxic Americanism. yardwork Aug 2020 #12

No kidding. I was taking a tour of the website of the local paper where I grew up in the Bible Belt. Girard442 Aug 2020 #51

What they don't understand is the Trump victory was just symbolic for them Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #14

Not agreeing Nasruddin Aug 2020 #56

This is what I get from the article Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #83

They won't mind giving up their Social Security checks, food stamps, clean air & water, NOAA, FDIC, dmr Aug 2020 #16

Meaning Trump's base are not the "rugged individualists" McCamy Taylor Aug 2020 #17

I hope we are not going back to the endless shrill cries of, "You just don't understand the Trump Squinch Aug 2020 #18

well put stopdiggin Aug 2020 #23

Status. Thus is one if the best descriptions I've ever seen. Thank you! PirateRo Aug 2020 #19

Agree ismnotwasm Aug 2020 #21

pretty much gospel truth stopdiggin Aug 2020 #22

I don't agree. I think most Roc2020 Aug 2020 #26

More than a few destroyed their brains with booze and meth. MarcA Aug 2020 #27

They make America weak. In the world's eyes and in actuality. elias7 Aug 2020 #28

Yes TheFarseer Aug 2020 #32

Let them rot in their rural hell. roamer65 Aug 2020 #35

i tried to tell my friend this barbtries Aug 2020 #36

I think the point of the writer's narrative Collimator Aug 2020 #37

Truth will out Mariana Aug 2020 #86

In other words 'They' are just ANIMALS. Where is the Gom Jabbar? Tommymac Aug 2020 #38

Thank you for posting this. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #39

Unfortunately, this thread has been pretty enlightening. I wish there was no market for BComplex Aug 2020 #40

I too lived in the Ozarks ... rustysgurl Aug 2020 #41

Biden wants to peel off some of these vile knuckleheads to vote for him...is it possible? Peregrine Took Aug 2020 #62

Growing up in Kentucky Normanart Aug 2020 #64

What about pockets of trump humpers in otherwise liberal places? matt819 Aug 2020 #42

"Is their goal only to fuck liberals?" Mariana Aug 2020 #87

They will always be here. They hate. That's what they do. Programmed cayugafalls Aug 2020 #43

What a load. They've just been brainwashed by decades of rural right wing AM hate radio to think catbyte Aug 2020 #46

No different than rigid male minds everywhere - black and white world bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #47

Plenty of double-X's in the Trump mix, I'm afraid Nasruddin Aug 2020 #57

"playing chicken with nature", huh? No cure for that brand of stupid. DinahMoeHum Aug 2020 #49

Tens of millions of Americans have a huge wellspring of hatred deep in their souls. patphil Aug 2020 #52

We absolutely do get it!! Hip2bSquare Aug 2020 #54

They are dumber than doorknobs. Joinfortmill Aug 2020 #55

Status. It has always been about status for these people. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #60

This post and especially the last two paragraphs are so insightful renate Aug 2020 #81

Yes, exactly. They resent us trying to lift others up because they feel it will only make them smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #88

That is a long FB post to say.. they must hate because they are weak due to their own insecurities. chowder66 Aug 2020 #61

I want to add that if this is about status, being looked down upon then maybe they should stop being chowder66 Aug 2020 #67

Yep, exactly. It all boils down to fear. GoCubsGo Aug 2020 #79

Agree but they do not have good support systems. Those systems are underhandedly chowder66 Aug 2020 #82

We totally got it from day and and equally give zero fucks for you Dukkha Aug 2020 #63

I appreciate the writer..... the_sly_pig Aug 2020 #65

I've been saying similar for a LONG time. Its not racism. It really is "I hate liberals" oldsoftie Aug 2020 #66

Why we don't concentrate on what THEY and the middle Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2020 #69

They are just imitating the god they worship GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #70

trump was on TEEVEE! he's famous! he's rich. media brainwashing since ronny raygun. then fux gnewz. pansypoo53219 Aug 2020 #71

For anyone who wants the text of that message, not a screen shot... Silent3 Aug 2020 #72

I have lived in this area for more than 50 years. gordianot Aug 2020 #73

Same thing here in NW PA Kaiserguy Aug 2020 #76

Who is Tom Nichols and why should we care. Like you have to live i the Ozarks to know Kashkakat v.2.0 Aug 2020 #77

I get it enough to know moondust Aug 2020 #80

Of course there is an element of this crowd in every country LiberalLovinLug Aug 2020 #84

To many communities in these areas DFW Aug 2020 #89

This is why turning out our base and other non-brainwashed people is paramount DSandra Aug 2020 #90

They have essentially been conditioned for a dictatorship DSandra Aug 2020 #91

This is the spot on truth. Every word Baltimike Aug 2020 #99

see that's the thing though Skittles Aug 2020 #101

Yup, biggest reason I wanted out of there. Lady Freedom Returns Aug 2020 #103