What do Dems need to do to win the rural vote

[MuseRider]

103. Sadly I am not sure how many

farms are out there anymore that are not corporate. We have some here but out West I believe many have been taken over. I do not have those numbers however. Bernie is the perfect guy to lead this. He comes across as sincere, as he is, and he is easy for people to relate too. I witnessed that with friends of mine who went to see him and came away with support for him. Not everyone however.

I was thinking about this this morning as I was re-reading this thread to see where it was actually heading. So much vitriol and of course I do understand it but I know from personal experience that that will not change things. As long as this has gone on many people who we would like to influence come to you with a boulder on their shoulders, ready to fight because nobody wants an "elite" (a term which they infuse exactly what we all hate in the pretentious billionaire class) telling them that they are not good enough or stupid or crass or whatever the latest term is. I too have engaged in that as an elitest and I had to work really hard to understand why that put you on your back foot before you even started.

I am nobody. I have done work in the state mostly for LGBTQ+ equality. I am not a leader although I have done work like one from time to time. I traveled the state once in a while and got my fill of what people out West thought about all of us from the East side of the state. They were right about most of it and I can tell you if it was me out there I would probably still be a Democrat (it is in my heart) but I would not want to listen to what usually comes to town to talk to them.

I was also thinking about how it is so important to let people know they have worth, not something many people here would advocate after reading all these years here. You know who does that almost better than anyone? As good as Bernie, it is Joe Biden. He is the kindest man when talking and trying to understand what people need who are not being reached. I was never a big fan of his but my mind has been changed just from listening to him and seeing how open his heart is and how he knows that everyone has worth, even if they disagree with him. I see a chance here that is likely to be blown if people do not start trying to really understand others, understand them knowing why they feel how they do. Most of them are not the illiterate Magats, nose picking gun humpers wanting to rape every woman and kill all the Democrats. Those people are there and in some places it has gotten really bad but that is not the fault of them it is mainly because we looked down at them, acted like they smelled bad and told them they were not worth the effort. I also understand feeling that way but it does not help us change things. Just my thoughts on this. Just a small time, once helped create a state wide organization that nobody ever thought would be possible in Kansas.