How Can Dems Win Back Rural America? Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Agree on the Answer

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46. Based on what for both? We're rural dwellers and know

rural liberals and conservatives, farmers and gardeners.

Conservatives have for the most part been using faith to stay loyal to their party for what cannot be supported by rationality. That's true whether rural or urban.

Feeling "close to the land" is a real thing, but compartmentalization allows them to keep their feelings and observations AND their denial. We know true nature lovers who haven't read National Geographic or watched a nature documentary in years because they mention climate change. And by that they know these media are all corrupt.

And, sadly, there are the other millions of rural dwellers who clear-cut their lots so they don't have to rake or clean leaves out of gutters and then hide all summer in air-conditioned boxes with the windows tight shut. Same as suburban and urban.

On the plus side, though we certainly cannot win "back" (!) rural conservatives we never had, we're already winning minds and voters in rural areas. REMEMBER the midterms? When suburbs went blue and rural areas around the nation went pink? That thrilled me so much I don't know how anyone could forget.