Rural America Is Desperate. It Is Also Part of the Democratic Base. Don't Abandon Them.

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69. I don't live in rural America

...there are far many more Americans living where I reside.

Just ONCE, I'd like to hear 'rural America' express support for the vast majority of Americans who live outside of their communities. Namely, I'd like to hear THEM give the same unequivocal support people are demanding we give rural white males, to urban minorities (mostly black and Latino) who have fared MUCH worse, as a group, financially and otherwise.

The opposite, of course, is the case, with those groups of individuals identifying blacks and (non-white) immigrants as the primary source of their financial woe.

I'm not a politician and I'll be damned if I'll posture like I don't have an overriding interest in promoting my own community. Besides, from where I sit, this plea to give respect to rural whites is a staple of EVERY post-election pontification. Every election, the people who invest the most in our party are pushed aside in favor of this handwringing over people who don't give a damn what our party offers them; looking for any way they can oppose our party, even when it's against their own interests.

And, why are these rural regions of the nation in such strife? Perhaps it has something to do with their state leadership who have resisted measures like Obamacare and Medicare reimbursements out of pure spite toward the black president.

It's going to take a lot more from them than a self-interested vote for Trump for me to place my own interests aside and focus on theirs.