Rural living.

[Afromania]

219. At this point

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It doesn't matter what they may think about themselves but they bought the label, and now all Trumps nasty stuff belongs to them. And by relation, any animus people are going to muster up for Trump will be directed at them too. Rural voters bought it, they bought ALL of it and all sales are final.

If they didn't want the title slapped on them they had one choice and that is to say nope to that fucker Trump. Rural voters decided not to acknowledge his overt bigoted, misogynistic, criminal, greedy, petty, mean spirited, small minded, vindictive, cruel, dis-loyal, hypocritical, dishonorable behavior. All it took for them to change their vote from Democrats to Republican was a few completely ridiculous and unfounded promises about jobs and walls.

Both California and New York voted overwhelmingly Hillary and she didn't campaign in either state. Poor people in these states and elsewhere were able to understand that voting for Trump is not a vote for anything resembling economic relief. Why did rural voters need to be hand held, coddled and schmoozed into voting for the best interests of the ENTIRE country, not just their own little particular area. The recovery wasn't fast enough for them so they killed us ALL instead.

What conceit that rural voters show when they tout their "small town-ness" and "rural living". Carting it out to paint themselves as the picture of "salt of the earth" folks that should have their poorness and suffering prioritized above t all else. Do you think that people living in/around large cities don't stand in lines and share stories? That we don't help each other when things are going tough? Well I have to tell ya when you aren't on the higher end of the economic spectrum, which is MOST of the people that live in these areas, you have to help each other just the same. Your neighbors hunt and bring you elk and venison.

My neighbors watch children for free in a market where childcare is stupidly expensive so parents can work for peanuts to pay their bills. Share any technical knowledge, skill, and general know how they have because to hire a professional would cost the kind of money they don't have. We are more or less EXACTLY like rural voters clawing and fighting to get along, but nobody EVER tosses a lick of respect the way of the urban poor.

Maybe urban voters should become more self interested in our particular struggle. We should all just ditch the Democratic Party and hold our votes hostage in order to get somebody, anybody, to put some money into schools that are so pathetically understaffed and overstuffed that the kids that graduate are actually under-educated compared to their peers. These kids have to compete in a job market that's already been filled to the brim with those migrating from elsewhere. They have to directly compete with the same immigrants that the rural voter is so concerned with. Somehow we've found the wisdom to not spend two generations throwing the rest of the country under the bus to assuage our own egos. We've reached the point where even burger joints are beginning to ask for associates degrees and the jobs that don't are perfectly willing to underpay and/or use undocumented work. With all of this happening we STILL didn't vote for Trump.

Ya know there are all kinds of urban situations that don't fit rural wisdom. Nobody is going to ascribe any sort of "noble" intent to our actions though. The exact same things that are hard on you are hard on us but we don't deign to flip flop and vote the country under the bus because only words are ever put to our problems. We're forced to be the bulwark against this nonsense because the rural voter is stuck in it's conceit that somehow it's all about them. Well fuck that nonsense because you, I, we, them, are all hurting in EXACTLY the same ways. We will continue to hurt until the day rural voters say that WE are with YOU in the fight to make things right. Until then rural voters are going to keep doing this to us to maintain their "salt of the earth" self image and lifestyles.


Ok, I've rambled enough.