You are entitled to your feelings

[Prairie Gates]

5. ACA helps rural voters; education grants help rural voters; funding research helps farmers

Urban "elites" have been promoting small farms in their activities and politics for years - the much disdained "elitist" foodways of so-called urban elites (i.e., don't eat at the fucking Olive Garden in NYC) help farms. Who are some of the biggest supporters of small farmers in upstate New York? Urban "elite" chefs and restaurants. Tom Colicchio has done more for rural America than Donald Trump ever will. Rural wifi is a Democratic project. Infrastructure is a Democratic project. So we are skeptical of fracking? Yes, fracking provides rural jobs, but it is desperate short-termism. Burned on that one, I guess.

The fact of the matter is that Democratic policies are much better for rural people than Republican policies. They vote on values, not economic policy. If there's impatience among urban Democrats with rural voters, it is actually based on their (rural voters) own non-stop, vicious attacks on and resentment of urban voters who are, in fact, helping them. Who give and give and give only to be belittled and discriminated against. Yes. What you are peddling is ideology, which is defined as an imaginary understanding of the real economic and political conditions - literally the opposite of what's really happening. Urban voters have gone absolutely out of their way to help rural voters for decades, only to be shit on again and again, to be referred to as NOT REAL Americans, and other endless slanders.