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In reply to the discussion: Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]JCMach1
(27,553 posts)created the rural/urban schism we have in this country. No amount of hand-holding, or hand-wringing is going to change that.
The future of the planet is The City. Our party ignores that at our peril.
I grew-up white, rural, working-class to poor in what is now the 13th poorest county in the USA. I went back there and opened a small business only to find that my 'home-town' had become the type of nightmare, fundamentalist place I am talking about. It has changed totally from the place of my childhood. And, frankly, there is nothing there worth saving at the moment... nothing.
So yeah, we (as a party) are going to need to accept that mantle that it's going to take power to fix things.
First things first, fix the damn Electoral College and fight like hell over voting rights and gerrymandering.
Obama's biggest failure as a President was to not use what he was given in 2008 to kick the Republican's teeth instead of playing patty cake.