Star Member maxrandb
I'm tired of hearing about "Dems not talking to rural America"
While I appreciate the message that "Dems need to talk to rural America", and I'm thankful that, on rare occasions, a State with more cows than people will send a Democrat to the Senate, I'm tired of this mythical "Dems need to reach out to rural America".
I want to say "Fuck" a thousand times, because I'm about fed up to my latte drinking ass with this fucking "Dems need to talk to rural Murika" bullshit.
All this fucking country has been doing, EVEN 200 years before it was a country, has been talking to and catering to these white rural areas .
We can't even get a fucking Post Office in Columbus Ohio named without first considering how it impacts rural America!
I would not be so fucking pissed about this, if just ONCE since the creation of this country, ANYONE had suggested that "rural America needs to talk to urban America ...JUST ONCE!
Maybe rural America should visit some inner city schools, with their delapidated buildings, broken desks, faulty electrical and broken windows.
Maybe rural America should come over and share a few pitchers of water with a Flint Michigan Family.
Maybe rural America should visit some poverty stricken areas of the city and, when they ask why people live there, they can find out that for 400 years, Banks and Real Estate Agents have "redlined" them into those areas and told them this is the ONLY place they were welcome.
Maybe rural America can visit an area of 20,000 that doesn't have access to fresh produce and groceries within 10 miles. Not by choice because they want to "live out in the country", but because the stores are all in the "good areas" of town.
Maybe rural America should sit down with that waitress serving $60 Steaks for 12 hours a day for minimum wage, who then has to drive an UBER for 4 more hours so she can afford her 400 Square Foot Walk-up and childcare for her kid.
Maybe the problem ISN'T that "Dems aren't talking to rural America". Maybe the problem is rural America doesn't give one fuck about anything but rural America .
Why is this always only a one-way street?
Why do I see thousands of these "Dems need to reach out to rural America" stories, but never even one "Retrumplicans need to reach out to urban America" stories.
Why is urban America expected to "understand" and "empathize" with rural America, but that expectation is NEVER reversed.
Is rural America the only ones that have a story to tell?
Are they ever asked to "understand" where 65% of Americans live?
Do we ever go to the corn farmer and ask him, or her, to understand what the Taco Truck owner in Los Angeles has to deal with?
Of course not.
Why would rural America ever give a shit about urban America when they're NEVER asked to?
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