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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts) Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:52 PM Dec 2016

This should be required reading moving forward...because they need to be TOLD [View all]

It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to throw attention away from the real problem. The real problem isn’t east coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is rural America doesn’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of choices they’ve made and horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/rural-america-understanding-isnt-problem

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This should be required reading moving forward...because they need to be TOLD [View all] LaydeeBug Dec 2016 OP

The more postmortem articles I see, the more I think each one is correct for different groups of RedWedge Dec 2016 #1

Yeah. It's definitely a multi-faceted problem with many helpful solutions but not ONE solution. randome Dec 2016 #6

They need their gunz and sky daddy that tells them to hate gays and dark skinned people. libtodeath Dec 2016 #2

I hope I'm not the one who has to tell them. HassleCat Dec 2016 #3

true... handmade34 Dec 2016 #4

and that *spite* has been glorified. LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #5

"got myself an education and didn't continue to think just like Ma and Pa and was ostracized..." Different Drummer Dec 2016 #27

The real problem is that throughout history there has always been a group of Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #7

My Pop Pop told me you can be as rich as you want to be if you're willing to hurt enough people. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #21

OMGosh! I visit a FB forum for coal miners... TheDebbieDee Dec 2016 #8

I am not sure you can reach them... LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #22

The only way Sec Clinton could have won the votes of these low-info TheDebbieDee Dec 2016 #28

Telephone operators, typewriter repair , etc etc I mean plenty have had to face a fading industry lunasun Dec 2016 #29

Bookmarked! Martin Eden Dec 2016 #9

one of their OWN needs to tell them Skittles Dec 2016 #10

It's slowly starting, but that is why we have to stand up to them EVERY TIME LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #14

Spot on Augiedog Dec 2016 #11

Merely waking up while being white isn't enough to command respect and Maru Kitteh Dec 2016 #12

A-effin-men! Silver Gaia Dec 2016 #13

The enforced conformity vlakitti Dec 2016 #15

I bet. And they don't think it's them. I'd call it cognitive disonance, but I am not sure LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #16

There's so many reasons onlyadream Dec 2016 #17

Yep. There is a divide between what they need and what they know LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #18

They don't need to be told, they need to be educated Nevernose Dec 2016 #19

These people don't need to be educated. They need to be SCHOOLED LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #20

So deep is their entrenchment in this paternalistic, authoritarian, narrow view of the world wiggs Dec 2016 #23

Nope, but shoving their face that it's owned by a FOREIGNER and one of their hated LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #24

K & R Scurrilous Dec 2016 #25

Another rural America is too stupid to vote thread nt doc03 Dec 2016 #26

Condescending, elitist crap ain't it? calendargirl Dec 2016 #32

Exactly they didn't leave the party the party has left them. If anybody doc03 Dec 2016 #33

YEP. They need to be SCHOOLED. They are DITTO HEADS for a REASON LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #34

I love this segment: "They dont want to know.." BadGimp Dec 2016 #30

that was the part that got me too. LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #31

Shameless kick for the TRUTH LaydeeBug Feb 2017 #35