He also said he'd control the border and do things to bring back better paying blue collar jobs. He talked to all kinds of world leaders who have powerful militaries, and things seemed a lot more stable. Russia was its most militaristic when Biden was VP and now... Some politicians are pushing to leave the border wide open and using taxpayer money to support the people who illegally cross through. Many had long given up even giving lip service to pushing for more well-paid blue collar jobs. I'm talking about factories to make things essential and important if there's instability or another power makes a move, not just forcing fast food wages up $5/hr overnight.
I'm old enough to remember when we the people didn't trust or admire the very wealthy elite, going back to that would help "make American great again."
@@peterinbrat Their favorite thing to do is to use language that simultaneously sounds like "EVERYONE is on the same page" but also "against that one group of 'other' countrymen". "We're both all together as one community and completely broken, and it's all our political opponent's fault!" XD
US media only show when Blacks get angry, even though it’s justified for police violence and cops aren’t prosecuted. But showing whyte rage is something new for the media to cover, even though it’s real and directed at the wrong people. They aren’t used to being pointed out for their wrong! But the country needs to know!
I will not apologize for learning machine learning algorithms & AI. If rural whites feel threatened, they can take the same training as me. Or they can be laid off!!!
They are the ones buying rural property and starting factory farming operations. This has nothing to do with liberals or dems. Its the fact that rural people tend promote consparisy theories and other misguided thinking.
It should be, but their so ignorant that they don't realize that the billionaires use them as their tools of social discontent, aka a distraction from the real problems the wealthy cause in society in the first place.
@@lyndamonchak4072 unfortunately, it's very true, and has been going on since the beginnings of the United States. I wish people would wake up and realize, other working class and poorer people aren't the enemy, it's the billionaires who have been sucking the working class dry since the beginnings, look at the railroads, the mines, the furniture and textile factories, just to name a few things. It's damned sad to watch us as a country going backwards, and instead of banding together we're fighting amongst ourselves.
And while they may not have easy access to TV or internet, they get most of the propaganda from the radio, so it was nothing but decades of listening to hate-filled drivel from the infamous Rush Limbaugh.
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps". The millions of Blacks that did that when slavery ended were murdered for doing so. It was way more than Tulsa and Rosewood.
I agree with their rage. I've been saying it for a while. The only problem is that they are aiming their guns at the wrong target. Of course, this is just a metaphor.
I think I guy named Murdock has something to do with that. A traitor from Australia brought down the IQ level to bottom dwellers who still cheer him on.
And that emotion is often a diversion from deeper issues. The top wealth class sent jobs overseas, by passing american workers. Thos profits need to be taxed at higher rates and invested back into the young, including rural america.
You can put blinders and filters on instead of looking at real things, if that's more palatable for you. The big differences that seemed apparent to me were trying to reinstate proper border control, and pushing for real, productive, well-paying blue collar jobs (for example, more production of critical things in case of global instability...not just $5/hr more for fast food work overnight).
@@dominicfucinari1942 military actions or other catastrophes. There must be some necessary items that the U.S. buys entirely or almost entirely from other countries...that would be hard to ramp up production of if a trading partner wouldn't supply it if U.S. and their interests didn't align or there were wars or proxy wars Side note, on border security. The look of some groups that have been let through, I would expect someone from somewhere has gotten in to bring down power grids, let loose invasive eggs or seeds for bugs or plants that will ruin forests and agricultural land, or do some damage to slow and lower the U.S.
bate and switch tatctic. Also, more broadly, just both parties (because that's all we really have, two parties) to a degree would rather have us arguing amoungst each other instead of paying close attention to what they do and don't do. Gov should be taking care of all the people not just the wealthy.
The repudicans have beent tapping into this more and more since Reagan, escalated during GW Bush and has hit a peak post-trump, with no signs of abating.
The game of EVERY politician (OK, there were exceptions) is to scare people, inflate threats, and then declare themselves to be the solution. It sells. Does moderation sell? Is No Labels still in the game?
They can plainly see the federal government letting anyone and everyone who illegally crosses in... just stay in, and using taxpayer money to support them. A bunch of the better known democrats are forever saying things that show they want to shrink basic rights of people legally in the country.
Rural Wisconsin = church and right wing media propaganda. Sen Ron Johnson tells you what needs to be said about Wisconsin. He tried to undermine democracy with the alternate elector scheme and spent July 4 in Russia.
These people want very simple answers, black or white, and have little to no capacity to parse what is being shoved into their brains by the cultists and big lie purveyors, maga and Qanonsense types.
I'm a rural white liberal with a MS in Geology (age 65) and what I see from my neighbors who didn't get a higher education is they don't know how to evaluate the source of information they are consuming or how to research topics. That's why they accept what they are being fed (from FOX).
Yes, I see that too. Not only that, but they think they are expects in all fields because they do their "research". I'm a Ph.D. which disqualifies my opinion on anything with these folks. They were the ones at the back of the classroom throwing spitballs and making jokes.
As a Native Indigenous person, seeing the demographic shifts changing back to what the lands of North America were for centuries before the white European open border invasion took place, it’s interesting how time becomes the ultimate variable that controls all things.
What I the hell are you talking about? So people of Asian, Arab and African descent are “returning North America“ to pre-European settlement. !?! You need help. You sound like a bigot.
I don’t think you know what demographic means. A bunch of people coming from other countries does not switch the demographic back. Indigenous people are even more of a minority.
You are correct my friend. The people coming up from so-called "south America", ancestors were here on this land. But, when white settlers began pouring in from Europe, protected by the US Army, the Indigenous population fled into what is now called "south America." They are all now coming back home to the lands of their grandfathers. 😊
@@gretchengraef3012 It's a terrible mix and causes people to be filled with rage and terror. They've been traumatized and don't even know it! It's like a relationship with a narcissistic abuser.
I am a retired 3rd generation American soldier who fought in 2 wars and 5 combat tours. I grew up in many places, including Europe, specifically France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and the Netherlands. Our kids went to German and Luxembourg schools. I was in schools in France, Germany and Spain. In school we were taught critical thinking, how to separate facts from propaganda / lies. My 3rd grade teacher in France fought in the French Resistance and was awarded a medal for Valor against the Germans. My kids were taught that the Nazis were a disgrace to Germany. We can learn from them. The European remember WWII and remember the Bosina civil war and Russian involvement behind it. They are not stupid. MAGA is stupid.
I guarantee any rural worker works harder everyday than u ever have at any point in your life and for less pay buddy. Many of us work two or three jobs just to make it because the rich have it all rigged…
I think many people don't understand the importance of spirituality, to gave one's life, greater meaning, and purpose. Unfortunately, it seems the evangelical movement is more about end of times prophecies, and not about finding spiritual paths which lead to greater satisfaction of our daily lives. Drugs are a substitute path, that often lead to nowhere.
A friend in high school in WI got a tattoo saying 'The South's gonna do it again!' Never in a million years did I think I'd have to admit that he was right.
Regardless of why they're angry, do they think making the Mango Mussolini their Dear Leader will help them in any way? I mean, obviously they do, so.. yeah. In a large part, they do it to themselves.
Do what to themselves? Currently, federal government members are trying to use taxpayer money on people they want to walk into the country without any vetting. At the same time, the left is full of people who want major rights to be infringed.
I don't think they're really concerned about whether Trump will help them or not. What they really care about is the fact that Trump will hurt the people they think ought to be hurt, which is anyone who isn't a white cishet male Christian.
If rural people don't want to be stereotyped, then they shouldn't be constantly enraged about garbage they are fed by Fox News, who prey on their ignorance.
And after Fox was forced to fork over 787 million dollars for tampering with the susceptible intellects of it's viewers, their intellects STILL remain clueless
My sister & I basically had the same education. Same schools from elementary to community college. I did go away for about a year to New York City for 1 year. We have totally different, opposing views. She is a Republican voting for Trump. I'm Democrat. Moved out of states, so can't vote for president. Edit: I was in college prep classes in middle/high school & took harder classes in college. She was in business classes, but still the same schools.
@@dominicfucinari1942 and one could say city folk and university campuses seem indoctrinated into just another 'modern religion' that involves using half truths of history to blame and shame the living, common citizens for the past in order to justify all sorts of 'feels good now to virtue signal, is actually too expensive or harmful' moves like ignoring border security, talk of reparations in states like California that were never involved ...also including leading to outright warning about/demonizing rural people in books that are astroturfed into the public conscience... I don't know if it's been debunked or altered yet, but I remember reading that more liberal people thought things out more, conservatives reacted more but were also better at assessing threats. It tracked with people I knew.
Rural American communities have suffered over the past 30 years. The Republicans have done a better job of harnessing and directing the angst of rural white America than the Democrats have done in pointing to the real causes, much less in alleviating them.
Because these solutions need help at the local level and all the local representatives are Republican and they will get kicked out if they are caught working with Democrats and the National Republicans aren't interested in solving the problem because they get their power from complaining about it (and blocking solutions).
Aren't they proof of the old saying that there's a sucker born every minute? Too many were dumb enough to believe trickle down economics was going to work back in the 80s.
It's always easier to destroy than create. I think of kindergarten, spending 15 minutes to make a castle out of blocks, then one kid coming by and in one second knocking it all down...perfect example of the difference between liberals and conservatives.
@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 The percentage of them compared to the American public is pretty small, they are a smaller and smaller number with more and more of America's money, but I get the point.
College education does not equate to intelligence. Student loan debt forgiveness? Because college educated people are too stupid to pay off voluntary loans. Give me a salt of the Earth person over an educated Master's degree holder in nonsense any day of the week.
It actually affects the House, Senate and the Presidency. The electoral college gives Wyoming 1 vote for every 193k people while California gets 1 for every 740k. In the Senate Wyoming gets 1 vote for every 290k people, where California has 1 vote for every 20 million. Even in the House where it is supposed to be even because they limited the size of the house to 435 people (this is a law not in the Constitution), Wyoming get 1 representation for 581k people and California gets one for every 769k people. So there is no place in the Federal government where a large state has equal representation as the small states do. This is before we add the stupid closure rules that require 60 votes in the Senate to get a bill voted on which gives a small group of small states veto power over the whole country.
Poor health care is one of the key underlying factors causing rural rage. A strong, stable democracy requires and equitable and efficient health care system.
I haven't read the book or the article and I'm 99% sure that at least some of the rage is entirely justified. I just think that the response to that rage is misdirected, and supporting Trump will not address the issues that cause it.
Justified but they don't realize that their own LEADERS AND PREACHERS HAVE BEEN pulling the con on them for decades. Why do most Red states never get ahead? Their corrupt leaders have convinced them that its all the Fed govt's fault for everything. And of course all those "others".
At this point neither party is going to address the issues, because they are both run by wealthy octogenarians who do nothing that won't benefit them come election day. All empires collapse, it just sucks that we happen to be alive for the collapse of ours
It's hard to describe how isolated America's rural areas are. You almost never see anyone you don't already know. Your radio is virtually all country music, Evangelical Christian, or conservative talk. Sinclair Broadcasting has particularly targeted TV in small markets. In much of the rural territory, non-white people are rare. Those that are are around have already been vetted into the community so "he's OK." As a result, rural folks are largely unaware that the neoliberalism which is destroying their access to a middle class life is also destroying the middle class everywhere else.
You need to get your facts right. Rural folks voting against your their own best interests: (Read: for Republicans) is what's destroying their access to a good life. Republicans are against healthcare, decent, affordable schools, infrastructure. In short, they're against EVERYTHING that makes people's lives easier. Try again.
politics are local, they have themselves to blame is exactly right! they continue to vote in culture warriors instead of people who actually want to govern. Rural America is finding out that culture wars do not pay the bills, but yet they still NEED a scapegoat for their fragile egos.
Russia is a far bigger threat to Europe than they will ever be to the US, but all free people should want to stand with other free people. Either stand together or fall alone.
Yes, it is not in America's interests that democratic allies, trading partners, and shipping lanes be conquered by hostile dictators. Isolationists miss that point.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r ---Bullsh!t. They are just as free, and in many respects even more so, than we are. I swear I don't know where you'd get that idea, but that's just screwed up.
While driving on I44 North from Texas in SW Oklahoma missed button on radio and hit the AM. I was schocked the so called Christian radio vomiting fascist agenda. Ted Cruz, Jim Inhofe, some guy called Mike Savage and Laura what ever. It's no wonder these people angry.
"Christian" radio is supposed to be about things related to Christianity and its precepts. Given that Christianity is not a political party, it shouldn't be a receptacle for that hateful über-partisan ultra right-wing dreck! The teachings ascribed to Jesus Christ are pretty much the direct OPPOSITE of what comes barfing out of the mouths of those shrill extremists anyway!
Excuse me, of the people outsourcing your jobs, grinding down your livelihood and quality of life/ opportunities along with manipulating you DO NOT LOOK LIKE THE 'OTHERS' YOU FEEL SUPERIOR TO AND DESPISE AND WHOSE DEGRADATION YOU REVEL IN. THEY ARE YOUR ILK AND BRETHREN THAT LOOK LIKE YOU!!!
So, the decision is to follow a NYC real estate developer born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has bankrupted countless businesses and has a very “compromised” private and public life and doesn’t give a shit about anybody but himself? WTF? He stands for everything these people hate! Yet, here we are…
In Rome GA and the hate toward “others” has grown exponentially over the past decade. They are longing for CW2 but they still love/worship the rich. It’s the ppl that make them think and question everything that will be taken out first. Byei 👋
Im a rural white american. But my rage is at the billionaires and free trade policies endorsed by both political parties over the years. To me both parties stink. But at least dems are for things like affordable health care, social security etc. But i definitely have rage. And i understand why people like myself do. However its often misplaced.
@@sylviagoodman6008 Gee i dont know. Sending refrigerator production. Auto part profuction etc to mexico or china pay them folks peanuts instead of paying a ametican 20$ a hour plus benefits. Free trade has destroyed our industrial base.
They are being "farmed" too hard by the owners of pretty much all capital. They have no stake in the nation's economy, except as disposable cheap labor. What is not explained, is how their rage became directed at Democrats.
'it is the metro areas that are “the state’s economic engine, generating tax dollars that flow outward to every corner of the state." Fascist politics feeds the insulting myth that hardworking rural residents pay to support lazy urban dwellers' "How Fascism Works the Politics of Us and Them", Stanley, p174
It's actually the other way around. Urban America pays the taxes that provide federal benefits to rural America. The rural states are net receivers of federal funds, while urban states are net payers in taxes.
Speaking of insulting myths - try running that economic engine of yours without rural residents to feed everybody. Your food doesn't come from a metro grocery store. The truth is that if the choice comes down to making money or making food, it's easy to recognize which is more fundamentally important to human existence. But that doesn't negate the importance of money either. Civilization and advanced technology offer definite benefits. Fascism doesn't offer a distorted view of the separation. The separation itself is the distortion. Promoting the superiority of one segment of an interconnected, interdependent web at the expense of the rest of the web is stupidly foolish.
Electing Trump as their vessel for righting The oligarchy is like asking an illegal drug dealer to fight against drug addiction-NOT GONNA Happen 🤣 🤦♂️
I don't mind them not wanting to help Ukraine defend itself... that's a given, they are extremely stingy with money. What I do mind is doing that...and then claiming to be good Christians.
As a rural white person, I can say without hesitation that much of the culture here is based upon suspicion and resentment toward anyone or anything perceived as “outsiders,” and a breathtaking ability to vote against our own interests.
I'm the antithesis of conservative, maga, republican. We moved to a rural area a few years ago, and -- without considering the effects the pandemic and Trump had on things -- moving to the country has been a real negative. Without a strong professional or social network, there are few ways to get ahead in the rural areas, and each step back -- whether by chance or some mishap -- is very difficult to recover from. Doctors are hours away, cars are prohibitively expensive, etc etc Add a crappy education and no social services or community resources, no cohesive culture or community, no nosey neighbors to keep a leash on people's darker impulses.... add crappy economies to that, and it's a breeding ground for resentment. Come in with ANY agenda, and speak directly to the people, you're going to get a response. Trump has rallies in these places. It's probably one of the few the annual social events most people will go to. I don't think it even matters what he says. People feel paid attention to, he says a few catchy sentences that resonate, and presto! He's got the votes. Get the few churches on your side, of which there are limited choices, and you've got their loyalty.
Rural Pakistan has had the same problem for 50 years. Read Passage to Peshewar by Reeves about the hostility in people who feel they are being left behind by the world.
These same people who feel they are being "left behind", are the same people who reject any attempt to improve their situation and they have the gall to be angry.
After living in a large city for 30 years, I moved back to my hometown. I knew I was going back to a conservative bible belt town, but I didn't realize how far the people had drifted from reality. Many of these small towns (that like to call themselves cities) benefited from a post war boom in which families were boosted into the middle class. As the world economy changed, these same jobs left these towns. The ruins of large factories that once stoked the American economy surround these towns, as well as the closed coal mines that fueled them. Now the grandchildren of these people realize they have no chance of achieving what their parents and grandparents did, especially without an education. They look for someone to blame, and the conservative media has been delighted to blame the whole world. China, immigrants, democrats ...the whole range of easy targets. The world has changed, and no one has helped the rural people of America fit into the new economic reality. They, as christians, are looking for a savior and fascist are looking to fill this position. In their minds a "great leader" can put things back like they were. The really big problem is that this can't happen as a matter of reality and no one in conservative land wants to say this. The world economy, in the real world goes merrily along, doing what it does and while it can be nudged a little bit, it won't be bringing jobs for people with no education, beyond high school, back. I do not know how we are going to deal with this as a society, but it is going to be an ongoing issue. What is going on now in the republican party could wreck the current economy and slow efforts to move forward.
You don't need 12 minutes to explain why rural voters are upset, you need 12 seconds. Their views haven't been represented in government in decades, and they're increasingly tired of seeing things go to crap as a result. The amount of self righteous and paternalistic arrogance on display in this comments section is astonishing.
Sorry, but rural states are net receivers of federal benefits, while urban states are net payers in taxes. Rural states are also over-represented in government because of the electoral system and the Constitution providing two Senators to every state regardless of population. So, the bitching about "not being represented" is BS.
You do know that they all vote for their government, too, right? To be clear, I don't think you're wrong, but I think your attitude is similar to theirs in that you jump right to outrage, looking for someone to blame, instead of putting any thought into solutions.
Love listening to Thom. As an independent, I hear him talk about how the Rs are the problem with everything. He omits everything the Dems do that is bad for working Americans. He makes me glad I am open minded enough to be independent and able to think for myself and not blindly following the Dems like it is a cult.
Well, the individuals they vote (GOP)for if they vote is where some of their rage should be pointed! But theres a thing called personal responsibility!
I spent the last 6 months in lower Arizona where I immediately noticed men my age will not smile. Where I'm from all the young professionals and middle managers are quick to return a smile to anyone and are quite tolerant. Here in AZ that same demographic, not only will they not return a smile to even a fellow white male, they seem upset with servers in the restaurant and gas station. The drive big pickup trucks and drive the single most self-centered I have ever seen. Charging around as though all right-of-way is anything they can charge on up to. Act like terrorists of the parking lot. I wanna go home to Silicon Valley - we are not like that
My personal belief is that the first sprinkles of white rage began around twenty years or more ago. I remember hearing many complaints about minorities receiving access to grants, loans, jobs, etc... while caucasians found that they themselves were struggling. The white struggle belief is not necessarily limited to rural America alone. My rural transplanted, christian, caucasian family reside within a large urban area & all of them are trumpers. I've retired discussing politics with them for it never ends well. I'll watch hours of conservative spews with them yet the moment the channel is switched to "MSM" they leave the room. Its disgusting behavior.
In the 1980's the ROTC office had a tabletop war game which demonstrated The Russian bloc (with greater numbers and crappier equipment) driving tanks across Germany and the west's forces needing to slow them down enough to get more equipment into theatre. I wasn't in ROTC, hence we got thrown out
A great example of how rural people are indoctrinated is with small cattle producers. They have been partaking in right wing nut radio for decades. They have voted against their own interests for years. Now, the cattle industry in every aspect has been monopolized and they have either been forced out or have suffered huge losses.
They wouldn't know the Flag Rules (Not wearing clothing with an American flag printed on them! Flag is supposed to be displayed as "free" as possible, e.g.), never mind knowing anything about the Constitution! 🤬🤬
I have seen the' try that in a small town' bumper sticker on autos in the rural areas more than once. This is all I need to see to confirm the white rage thing. trump has made it clear that violence against anyone you think doesn't have the same beliefs as you is fine.
As a black Conservative? I'd be pi$$ed. You are gonna raise MY taxes AND my cost of goods WHILE dumping criminals into my neighborhood? And, you think I'M gonna be happy about you RAISING MY TAXES AGAIN?😂😂😂 Yeah. I's be pi$$ed.
Everyday 24 hrs a day that The border is out of control. Nothing about Biden’s great economy. Nothing but negative news about Biden. Listen to conservative talk radio.
Why do the Maga’s not view trump as an elite.
“I’m Really Rich”, and they think
Good Choice. It’s bizarre imo.
He also said he'd control the border and do things to bring back better paying blue collar jobs. He talked to all kinds of world leaders who have powerful militaries, and things seemed a lot more stable. Russia was its most militaristic when Biden was VP and now...
Some politicians are pushing to leave the border wide open and using taxpayer money to support the people who illegally cross through. Many had long given up even giving lip service to pushing for more well-paid blue collar jobs. I'm talking about factories to make things essential and important if there's instability or another power makes a move, not just forcing fast food wages up $5/hr overnight.
I'm old enough to remember when we the people didn't trust or admire the very wealthy elite, going back to that would help "make American great again."
Bizarre is absolutely right.
Agree Trump is a trust fund kid…burned thru his grandfather,s 17Billion trust fund in 2 years. Never earned a dollar…all his businesses went bankrupt…
Poorly educated people who enjoy racism.😂
Fox news tells them to be outraged and those blonde ladies in short skirts would never lie to them, right?😂
Nailed it!
You could easily do 100+ clips of FOX segments that start off with "Americans are outraged.."
@@peterinbrat Their favorite thing to do is to use language that simultaneously sounds like "EVERYONE is on the same page" but also "against that one group of 'other' countrymen".
"We're both all together as one community and completely broken, and it's all our political opponent's fault!" XD
Why is it all those blonde blue eyed women are all named Kelly or Kaylee?
US media only show when Blacks get angry, even though it’s justified for police violence and cops aren’t prosecuted. But showing whyte rage is something new for the media to cover, even though it’s real and directed at the wrong people. They aren’t used to being pointed out for their wrong! But the country needs to know!
That rage should be directed 100% towards billionaires!
Worse, Charles Koch and Farris Wilks are funding these reactionaries' favorite commentators and outlets!
When one out of every 15 Americans is a millionaire, it's not just the billionaires alone.
I will not apologize for learning machine learning algorithms & AI. If rural whites feel threatened, they can take the same training as me. Or they can be laid off!!!
They are the ones buying rural property and starting factory farming operations. This has nothing to do with liberals or dems. Its the fact that rural people tend promote consparisy theories and other misguided thinking.
It should be, but their so ignorant that they don't realize that the billionaires use them as their tools of social discontent, aka a distraction from the real problems the wealthy cause in society in the first place.
"Convince the lowest white man that he is better than the highest black man, and he'll never know his pockets are being fleeced."
That's incredibly sad and very dangerous
"Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you" - LBJ
"Welfare for me but not for thee."
LBJ
@@lyndamonchak4072 unfortunately, it's very true, and has been going on since the beginnings of the United States. I wish people would wake up and realize, other working class and poorer people aren't the enemy, it's the billionaires who have been sucking the working class dry since the beginnings, look at the railroads, the mines, the furniture and textile factories, just to name a few things. It's damned sad to watch us as a country going backwards, and instead of banding together we're fighting amongst ourselves.
Their rage is warranted; the problem is it’s focused incorrectly due to decades of propaganda.
They continuously vote these a$$hats in that make it their policy to screw them over financially educationally etc.
And while they may not have easy access to TV or internet, they get most of the propaganda from the radio, so it was nothing but decades of listening to hate-filled drivel from the infamous Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, you're quit correct !
True. The gullible have been manipulated by the Republicans.
What's a white guy got to worry about? The Banana Republic ran out of khakis?? - George Carlin
On J6, the world got to see the kinds of people behind the Tulsa and Rosewood riots and thousands of lynchings throughout US history.
That PART
And the BLM riots of 2020 showed us why a lot of black men got lynched.
The FBI?
@@user-zu5do6ri6r Hardly.
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps". The millions of Blacks that did that when slavery ended were murdered for doing so. It was way more than Tulsa and Rosewood.
Some rage is justified.
The billionaires have been rigging things for 40 years.
I've never seen a group of billionaires beat a defenseless white person to death. Black people do it 100 times a day.
The problem is they're not directing their rage at billionaires.
@@beng4647stop lying citation needed
@beng4647 your kind fought two world wars in the same century. So let's not go there when it comes to violence.
I agree with their rage. I've been saying it for a while. The only problem is that they are aiming their guns at the wrong target. Of course, this is just a metaphor.
Citizen Kane's lies and Fox's brand of yellow journalism have wounded our nation.
I think I guy named Murdock has something to do with that. A traitor from Australia brought down the IQ level to bottom dwellers who still cheer him on.
@@latequilera22 If ya got it, spend it. Everyone can't be on top, or can they?
National Inquirer with Trump conspired to create fake news ahead of the 2016 exertion, pizza gate etc..... creation of Donald Trump
Fox News is a terrorist organization. Nothing but lies and hate speech.
@@j.dragon651 ALL the puppetmasters can be on top.
He gave them permission to voice their racism.
And that emotion is often a diversion from deeper issues. The top wealth class sent jobs overseas, by passing american workers. Thos profits need to be taxed at higher rates and invested back into the young, including rural america.
@@yurei8Very true.
You can put blinders and filters on instead of looking at real things, if that's more palatable for you.
The big differences that seemed apparent to me were trying to reinstate proper border control, and pushing for real, productive, well-paying blue collar jobs (for example, more production of critical things in case of global instability...not just $5/hr more for fast food work overnight).
@@Wary_Of_Extremes What kind of planetary volatility?
@@dominicfucinari1942 military actions or other catastrophes. There must be some necessary items that the U.S. buys entirely or almost entirely from other countries...that would be hard to ramp up production of if a trading partner wouldn't supply it if U.S. and their interests didn't align or there were wars or proxy wars
Side note, on border security. The look of some groups that have been let through, I would expect someone from somewhere has gotten in to bring down power grids, let loose invasive eggs or seeds for bugs or plants that will ruin forests and agricultural land, or do some damage to slow and lower the U.S.
ive lived in michigan , ive lived in alabama and delved in all states around. yeah they are angry, and its by republican design.
What are they angry about, that you've noticed, and why is it wrong?
bate and switch tatctic. Also, more broadly, just both parties (because that's all we really have, two parties) to a degree would rather have us arguing amoungst each other instead of paying close attention to what they do and don't do. Gov should be taking care of all the people not just the wealthy.
The repudicans have beent tapping into this more and more since Reagan, escalated during GW Bush and has hit a peak post-trump, with no signs of abating.
The game of EVERY politician (OK, there were exceptions) is to scare people, inflate threats, and then declare themselves to be the solution. It sells. Does moderation sell? Is No Labels still in the game?
@@Wary_Of_ExtremesIt boils down to knowing white America won't be a majority any longer. They're afraid of that.
Most of the red I encounter in rural Wisconsin , don't know about a single piece of legislation, it's all fear and years of the team mentally.
They can plainly see the federal government letting anyone and everyone who illegally crosses in... just stay in, and using taxpayer money to support them.
A bunch of the better known democrats are forever saying things that show they want to shrink basic rights of people legally in the country.
And no OB-GYNs in my part of rural red WI. Pro-life, no?
Rural Wisconsin = church and right wing media propaganda. Sen Ron Johnson tells you what needs to be said about Wisconsin. He tried to undermine democracy with the alternate elector scheme and spent July 4 in Russia.
These people want very simple answers, black or white, and have little to no capacity to parse what is being shoved into their brains by the cultists and big lie purveyors, maga and Qanonsense types.
You can't forget the racism, misogyny, xenophobia and homophobia
I'm a rural white liberal with a MS in Geology (age 65) and what I see from my neighbors who didn't get a higher education is they don't know how to evaluate the source of information they are consuming or how to research topics. That's why they accept what they are being fed (from FOX).
Education does not equate to intelligence. Get off your high horse. MSNBC and CNN are 24/7 lying Democrat propaganda.
I'ts not just Fox, remember all the myriad right wing sites like newsmax, rush limbaughs etc.
Yes, I see that too. Not only that, but they think they are expects in all fields because they do their "research". I'm a Ph.D. which disqualifies my opinion on anything with these folks. They were the ones at the back of the classroom throwing spitballs and making jokes.
Another advantage of going to a university is meeting all types of people, which tends to be fatal to bigotry.
But when your source of information is sued for lying and loses, an ounce of common sense should kick in. ☹️😒
Behind the smiles, yes there is a great deal of rage and trump tapped into it years ago along with the evangelical cult of the false Christ.
The evangelicals tapped into that ignorance long before Trump, and they successfully kept people ignorant.
As a Native Indigenous person, seeing the demographic shifts changing back to what the lands of North America were for centuries before the white European open border invasion took place, it’s interesting how time becomes the ultimate variable that controls all things.
They should go back to Europe.
What I the hell are you talking about? So people of Asian, Arab and African descent are “returning North America“ to pre-European settlement. !?! You need help. You sound like a bigot.
I don’t think you know what demographic means. A bunch of people coming from other countries does not switch the demographic back. Indigenous people are even more of a minority.
@@defenstrator4660 I think I understand perfectly.
You are correct my friend. The people coming up from so-called "south America", ancestors were here on this land. But, when white settlers began pouring in from Europe, protected by the US Army, the Indigenous population fled into what is now called "south America." They are all now coming back home to the lands of their grandfathers. 😊
Conservative talk radio & lack of a rounded education is the reason rural Americans think the way they do .
THIS. Ronald Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine, and real monsters like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones took advantage.
and fundamentalist religion
And guns and meth.
@@gretchengraef3012 It's a terrible mix and causes people to be filled with rage and terror. They've been traumatized and don't even know it! It's like a relationship with a narcissistic abuser.
@@harleyb.birdwhisperer Guns are an important deterrent to radical right wing nuts , because they are armed & crazy .
Meth is no good
I am a retired 3rd generation American soldier who fought in 2 wars and 5 combat tours. I grew up in many places, including Europe, specifically France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and the Netherlands. Our kids went to German and Luxembourg schools. I was in schools in France, Germany and Spain. In school we were taught critical thinking, how to separate facts from propaganda / lies. My 3rd grade teacher in France fought in the French Resistance and was awarded a medal for Valor against the Germans. My kids were taught that the Nazis were a disgrace to Germany. We can learn from them. The European remember WWII and remember the Bosina civil war and Russian involvement behind it. They are not stupid. MAGA is stupid.
They should be outraged by their representatives, not the rest of the country. Those states keep electing lousy politicians to govern them.
Go go go for Lunchbucket Joe who trips going up a staircase not down.
They’re scared of change and too lazy to learn new things.
I guarantee any rural worker works harder everyday than u ever have at any point in your life and for less pay buddy. Many of us work two or three jobs just to make it because the rich have it all rigged…
With good reason change isn't always good some people are always hurt
@@djt8518bullshit, change is a good thing.
@@djt8518😢 Oh, poor white babies. They’ve got no one to blame but themselves.
I think many people don't understand the importance of spirituality, to gave one's life, greater meaning, and purpose. Unfortunately, it seems the evangelical movement is more about end of times prophecies, and not about finding spiritual paths which lead to greater satisfaction of our daily lives. Drugs are a substitute path, that often lead to nowhere.
Ignorance and rage travel the same road .
Sad but true!
So it you are mad about something then you are probably dumb?
It's all about that good old sadomasochistic, racially separate culture. Guns, macho men, Marlboros, boots and beer guts.
Their whole way of life is bulls***. MACHO IS BULLS****!!
-Mr. G from 187
Along with big cowboy hats, tight wrangler jeans, and souped up pickup trucks.
So, Republican's Southern Strategy has worked and it is still working.
Kinda of sad really, they sympathize with their racism only to lower their wages.
A friend in high school in WI got a tattoo saying 'The South's gonna do it again!' Never in a million years did I think I'd have to admit that he was right.
@@benvoncamp should call in and see what he says on the topic.
@@onomatopoeia162003 even if he is still alive at 38 (which I doubt) I would never. Some people grow up, others… well, remain fools.
@@benvoncamp so you wouldn't call in to Thom on the topic of the Southern strategy, etc. That's what I meant.
Regardless of why they're angry, do they think making the Mango Mussolini their Dear Leader will help them in any way? I mean, obviously they do, so.. yeah. In a large part, they do it to themselves.
Do what to themselves?
Currently, federal government members are trying to use taxpayer money on people they want to walk into the country without any vetting. At the same time, the left is full of people who want major rights to be infringed.
They are Their Own Shipwreck.....
What they will do if they elect MAGA, is permit the dismantling of the support structures that so many of them depend on. Sad stuff.
The afterbirther in chief gives them permission to persecute their neighbors.
I don't think they're really concerned about whether Trump will help them or not. What they really care about is the fact that Trump will hurt the people they think ought to be hurt, which is anyone who isn't a white cishet male Christian.
If rural people don't want to be stereotyped, then they shouldn't be constantly enraged about garbage they are fed by Fox News, who prey on their ignorance.
Or maybe you're just in a trance.
And after Fox was forced to fork over 787 million dollars for tampering with the susceptible intellects of it's viewers, their intellects STILL remain clueless
Why education is so important.
My sister & I basically had the same education. Same schools from elementary to community college. I did go away for about a year to New York City for 1 year. We have totally different, opposing views. She is a Republican voting for Trump. I'm Democrat. Moved out of states, so can't vote for president.
Edit: I was in college prep classes in middle/high school & took harder classes in college. She was in business classes, but still the same schools.
They blame everyone else for their abject failure
Unless we start to tell each other the truth out loud, we’re screwed.
We do except rural ragers don’t accept it
@@EugeneYus What do you think is the truth, and why don't you think rural people won't accept it?
@@Wary_Of_Extremes There are exceptions among white ruralites, but demagoguery, and receptiveness thereto, is concentrated there.
@@dominicfucinari1942 and one could say city folk and university campuses seem indoctrinated into just another 'modern religion' that involves using half truths of history to blame and shame the living, common citizens for the past in order to justify all sorts of 'feels good now to virtue signal, is actually too expensive or harmful' moves like ignoring border security, talk of reparations in states like California that were never involved ...also including leading to outright warning about/demonizing rural people in books that are astroturfed into the public conscience...
I don't know if it's been debunked or altered yet, but I remember reading that more liberal people thought things out more, conservatives reacted more but were also better at assessing threats. It tracked with people I knew.
Who’s truth ?
They keep voting for a Party that doesn't care about them. I don't care if they're angry. Look in the mirror, that's your problem.
Rural (red area) folks are right to be angry at how they're being served by their incompetent Republican representatives and governing officials.
But they keep blindly voting red republican which doesn’t make any sense.
They are living in the past and are very ignorant . Same old issues throughout history .
Small town and rural America is being kept ignorant by religion.
And proud of it too.
Rural American communities have suffered over the past 30 years. The Republicans have done a better job of harnessing and directing the angst of rural white America than the Democrats have done in pointing to the real causes, much less in alleviating them.
Their corrupt leaders and preachers have successfully conned them while blaming the Fed govt and the "others" for all their misery.
Because these solutions need help at the local level and all the local representatives are Republican and they will get kicked out if they are caught working with Democrats and the National Republicans aren't interested in solving the problem because they get their power from complaining about it (and blocking solutions).
@@paulconner4614 I am sad to say that you have summarized the problem accurately and concisely.
Aren't they proof of the old saying that there's a sucker born every minute? Too many were dumb enough to believe trickle down economics was going to work back in the 80s.
It's always easier to destroy than create. I think of kindergarten, spending 15 minutes to make a castle out of blocks, then one kid coming by and in one second knocking it all down...perfect example of the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Alot of problems in this country is the larger division of people with big money wanting more and don't care who they hurt to get it
A lot? I'd say about 95% of them.
@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 The percentage of them compared to the American public is pretty small, they are a smaller and smaller number with more and more of America's money, but I get the point.
They have been voting against their interests for 40 yrs!!!
davidbradley3735 ............and pulling the country backward.
And don’t have the slightest idea of what it’s causing in their lives more poverty
It's also the uneducated. The amount of people in rural areas that can't read is astonishing.
How many rural ragers can’t tell the difference between there their they’re where were you’re and your? All of them. All of the ragers
Don’t mistake intelligence with education. Some of the educated are the stupidest people !
@@EugeneYus two, to and too also!
Thats call MAGA, dont you know
College education does not equate to intelligence. Student loan debt forgiveness? Because college educated people are too stupid to pay off voluntary loans. Give me a salt of the Earth person over an educated Master's degree holder in nonsense any day of the week.
My gripe is with the electoral system that overweights the rural votes. A single Wyoming vote counts for more than several California votes.
It actually affects the House, Senate and the Presidency. The electoral college gives Wyoming 1 vote for every 193k people while California gets 1 for every 740k. In the Senate Wyoming gets 1 vote for every 290k people, where California has 1 vote for every 20 million. Even in the House where it is supposed to be even because they limited the size of the house to 435 people (this is a law not in the Constitution), Wyoming get 1 representation for 581k people and California gets one for every 769k people. So there is no place in the Federal government where a large state has equal representation as the small states do. This is before we add the stupid closure rules that require 60 votes in the Senate to get a bill voted on which gives a small group of small states veto power over the whole country.
@@paulconner4614 Thank you for resoundingly making my point. Your research was thorough and the findings were presented flawlessly..
Affordable healthcare?
Try THAT in a small town.
Affordable Healthcare is a dead concept for anyone who works.
While visting my mom in a small town in Utah during covid; she told me not to wear a mask lest I want to upset the locals at the surplus store. FFS
I wonder if they would accept that cancer patients, asthmatics and other immuno compromised patients also wear masks? Or not really?
Wow!
Masks didn't to anything but make you feel better.
Poor health care is one of the key underlying factors causing rural rage. A strong, stable democracy requires and equitable and efficient health care system.
Rurals didn't want Obamacare because Obama did it. They raged because of that.
You spelled Bigotry and racism wrong
what's health insurance? sounds really helpful.
@@johnsiddall1595 Why do so many people in red states and rural areas have such bad health?
Rich people with free Healthcare convinced the poor Whites that free Healthcare was a bad thing..........especially if a Black man was behind it.
Trump nationalized the Southern Strategy - into all of rural white America - to form a Second Confederacy.
Like in the Civil War?
I think he wrote an article on that in the last year or so.
I haven't read the book or the article and I'm 99% sure that at least some of the rage is entirely justified. I just think that the response to that rage is misdirected, and supporting Trump will not address the issues that cause it.
Supporting Trump will make it far worse.
Justified but they don't realize that their own LEADERS AND PREACHERS HAVE BEEN pulling the con on them for decades. Why do most Red states never get ahead? Their corrupt leaders have convinced them that its all the Fed govt's fault for everything. And of course all those "others".
Neither person running for office is a valid solution. Trump is the lesser of the two evils.
At this point neither party is going to address the issues, because they are both run by wealthy octogenarians who do nothing that won't benefit them come election day. All empires collapse, it just sucks that we happen to be alive for the collapse of ours
It's hard to describe how isolated America's rural areas are. You almost never see anyone you don't already know. Your radio is virtually all country music, Evangelical Christian, or conservative talk. Sinclair Broadcasting has particularly targeted TV in small markets. In much of the rural territory, non-white people are rare. Those that are are around have already been vetted into the community so "he's OK." As a result, rural folks are largely unaware that the neoliberalism which is destroying their access to a middle class life is also destroying the middle class everywhere else.
You need to get your facts right. Rural folks voting against your their own best interests: (Read: for Republicans) is what's destroying their access to a good life. Republicans are against healthcare, decent, affordable schools, infrastructure. In short, they're against EVERYTHING that makes people's lives easier. Try again.
Just driving in texas is DANGEROUS!
politics are local, they have themselves to blame is exactly right! they continue to vote in culture warriors instead of people who actually want to govern. Rural America is finding out that culture wars do not pay the bills, but yet they still NEED a scapegoat for their fragile egos.
San Francisco.
Rural folks cannot accept the proven fact that most of their ultra conservative religious beliefs are all fictitious.
@@kend3404 Yeah, there's such a place as San Fransisco. Your point?
Russia is a far bigger threat to Europe than they will ever be to the US, but all free people should want to stand with other free people. Either stand together or fall alone.
Yes, it is not in America's interests that democratic allies, trading partners, and shipping lanes be conquered by hostile dictators. Isolationists miss that point.
@@ALFarrell-kv6okit’s also not in our interests to know little about Russia and go to war on false information
The people of Europe are not free.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r ---Bullsh!t. They are just as free, and in many respects even more so, than we are. I swear I don't know where you'd get that idea, but that's just screwed up.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r They are far freer than anyone in Russia and China and most the rest of the world for that matter.
While driving on I44 North from Texas in SW Oklahoma missed button on radio and hit the AM. I was schocked the so called Christian radio vomiting fascist agenda. Ted Cruz, Jim Inhofe, some guy called Mike Savage and Laura what ever. It's no wonder these people angry.
However, if there were some significant education, folk would not buy into foolishness just because they heard it on the radio!
Probably Laura Ingraham. She's KNOWN for that.
"Christian" radio is supposed to be about things related to Christianity and its precepts. Given that Christianity is not a political party, it shouldn't be a receptacle for that hateful über-partisan ultra right-wing dreck! The teachings ascribed to Jesus Christ are pretty much the direct OPPOSITE of what comes barfing out of the mouths of those shrill extremists anyway!
White rural rage is baded on total ignorance.
It’s the hate in their bitter hearts that’s making them so angry, nothing good comes out of hate.
Stupid is as stupid does. Idaho where logic goes to die.
I like that, sounds like a quote from Forest Gump, even he had the common sense to see right from wrong
Along with West Virginia.
Excuse me, of the people outsourcing your jobs, grinding down your livelihood and quality of life/ opportunities along with manipulating you DO NOT LOOK LIKE THE 'OTHERS' YOU FEEL SUPERIOR TO AND DESPISE AND WHOSE DEGRADATION YOU REVEL IN. THEY ARE YOUR ILK AND BRETHREN THAT LOOK LIKE YOU!!!
How do those people think native Americans feel?
Living in a rural WI county with only one overpriced grocery store, no OB-GYNs, and it being declared a “2A Sanctuary,” I would say Thom’s on track.
that would make sense when there is only one store. Then there isn't any competition on prices. (coming from here in southern MN)
So, the decision is to follow a NYC real estate developer born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has bankrupted countless businesses and has a very “compromised” private and public life and doesn’t give a shit about anybody but himself? WTF?
He stands for everything these people hate! Yet, here we are…
I agree with your American general amnesia toward the fascism of Russia throughout Europe.
Yes…read the book too. The scary part to me was these characters care more about going back to a 1950’s culture than democracy.
In Rome GA and the hate toward “others” has grown exponentially over the past decade. They are longing for CW2 but they still love/worship the rich. It’s the ppl that make them think and question everything that will be taken out first.
Byei 👋
Temporarily embarrassed billionaires
Im a rural white american. But my rage is at the billionaires and free trade policies endorsed by both political parties over the years. To me both parties stink. But at least dems are for things like affordable health care, social security etc. But i definitely have rage. And i understand why people like myself do. However its often misplaced.
What's wrong with free trade?
@@sylviagoodman6008 Gee i dont know. Sending refrigerator production. Auto part profuction etc to mexico or china pay them folks peanuts instead of paying a ametican 20$ a hour plus benefits. Free trade has destroyed our industrial base.
Absolutely true. Democrats are bought to stay out of the way. Snowflake Republicans. Follow the money as always.
I appreciate your understanding of where you are placing your rage.
😂😂😂😂 Dems are NOT for Social Security or affordable Healthcare. They give plenty of lip service, but they rarely take meaningful action.
They are being "farmed" too hard by the owners of pretty much all capital. They have no stake in the nation's economy, except as disposable cheap labor.
What is not explained, is how their rage became directed at Democrats.
'it is the metro areas that are “the state’s economic engine, generating tax dollars that flow outward to every corner of the state."
Fascist politics feeds the insulting myth that hardworking rural residents pay to support lazy urban dwellers'
"How Fascism Works the Politics of Us and Them", Stanley, p174
It's actually the other way around. Urban America pays the taxes that provide federal benefits to rural America. The rural states are net receivers of federal funds, while urban states are net payers in taxes.
Speaking of insulting myths - try running that economic engine of yours without rural residents to feed everybody. Your food doesn't come from a metro grocery store. The truth is that if the choice comes down to making money or making food, it's easy to recognize which is more fundamentally important to human existence. But that doesn't negate the importance of money either. Civilization and advanced technology offer definite benefits. Fascism doesn't offer a distorted view of the separation. The separation itself is the distortion.
Promoting the superiority of one segment of an interconnected, interdependent web at the expense of the rest of the web is stupidly foolish.
Electing Trump as their vessel for righting The oligarchy is like asking an illegal drug dealer to fight against drug addiction-NOT GONNA Happen 🤣 🤦♂️
I don't mind them not wanting to help Ukraine defend itself... that's a given, they are extremely stingy with money. What I do mind is doing that...and then claiming to be good Christians.
As a rural white person, I can say without hesitation that much of the culture here is based upon suspicion and resentment toward anyone or anything perceived as “outsiders,” and a breathtaking ability to vote against our own interests.
I grew up in a primarily rural area, and that group of folks ALWAYS seemed angry to me...
🤷🏽♂️
Their diet, what they eat, certainly plays a small role in this anger. "You are what you eat". Minds and bodies full of junk.
It probably doesn’t help that in many small towns a Dollar Store is the only place to buy food.
That's a universal problem in this country, friend, not just a MAGA issue.
They scream tds but are literally crying over the guy that was president 12 years ago
Basically don’t air our dirty laundry. It is not allowed. I’m not surprised at all.
They have reason to be angry, but they are blaming the wrong people.
Exactly
Their actual oppressors are the people they, themselves, elect.
🌊 Keep on speaking the truth. TY!!! 🌊
Mark Twain said it best: NO amount of evidence will convince an idiot......
I'm the antithesis of conservative, maga, republican. We moved to a rural area a few years ago, and -- without considering the effects the pandemic and Trump had on things -- moving to the country has been a real negative. Without a strong professional or social network, there are few ways to get ahead in the rural areas, and each step back -- whether by chance or some mishap -- is very difficult to recover from. Doctors are hours away, cars are prohibitively expensive, etc etc
Add a crappy education and no social services or community resources, no cohesive culture or community, no nosey neighbors to keep a leash on people's darker impulses.... add crappy economies to that, and it's a breeding ground for resentment.
Come in with ANY agenda, and speak directly to the people, you're going to get a response. Trump has rallies in these places. It's probably one of the few the annual social events most people will go to. I don't think it even matters what he says. People feel paid attention to, he says a few catchy sentences that resonate, and presto! He's got the votes. Get the few churches on your side, of which there are limited choices, and you've got their loyalty.
Rural Pakistan has had the same problem for 50 years. Read Passage to Peshewar by Reeves about the hostility in people who feel they are being left behind by the world.
These same people who feel they are being "left behind", are the same people who reject any attempt to improve their situation and they have the gall to be angry.
They were promised everything, but they still want more. Petulant children.
After living in a large city for 30 years, I moved back to my hometown. I knew I was going back to a conservative bible belt town, but I didn't realize how far the people had drifted from reality. Many of these small towns (that like to call themselves cities) benefited from a post war boom in which families were boosted into the middle class. As the world economy changed, these same jobs left these towns. The ruins of large factories that once stoked the American economy surround these towns, as well as the closed coal mines that fueled them. Now the grandchildren of these people realize they have no chance of achieving what their parents and grandparents did, especially without an education.
They look for someone to blame, and the conservative media has been delighted to blame the whole world. China, immigrants, democrats ...the whole range of easy targets. The world has changed, and no one has helped the rural people of America fit into the new economic reality. They, as christians, are looking for a savior and fascist are looking to fill this position. In their minds a "great leader" can put things back like they were. The really big problem is that this can't happen as a matter of reality and no one in conservative land wants to say this. The world economy, in the real world goes merrily along, doing what it does and while it can be nudged a little bit, it won't be bringing jobs for people with no education, beyond high school, back. I do not know how we are going to deal with this as a society, but it is going to be an ongoing issue. What is going on now in the republican party could wreck the current economy and slow efforts to move forward.
I'm rural and the outrage I have is for those who still support Diaper Don and his ilk.
I’m white, rural and I think you people don’t know diddly about us and really don’t care to. Other than to criticize, you have nothing to do with us.
Why don't you read the book and learn all about yourself. 😂😂😂
You don't need 12 minutes to explain why rural voters are upset, you need 12 seconds. Their views haven't been represented in government in decades, and they're increasingly tired of seeing things go to crap as a result.
The amount of self righteous and paternalistic arrogance on display in this comments section is astonishing.
Yep, with you being one of them. That said, they HAVE been represented, only they didn't know that republicans didn't, and don't, like them.
Sorry, but rural states are net receivers of federal benefits, while urban states are net payers in taxes. Rural states are also over-represented in government because of the electoral system and the Constitution providing two Senators to every state regardless of population. So, the bitching about "not being represented" is BS.
You do know that they all vote for their government, too, right?
To be clear, I don't think you're wrong, but I think your attitude is similar to theirs in that you jump right to outrage, looking for someone to blame, instead of putting any thought into solutions.
I'm white,. My first two friends in my l ife were two black kids. At 5 and 6 years old. I loved those guys.
This twisted mindset abounds where I currently reside.
Love listening to Thom. As an independent, I hear him talk about how the Rs are the problem with everything. He omits everything the Dems do that is bad for working Americans. He makes me glad I am open minded enough to be independent and able to think for myself and not blindly following the Dems like it is a cult.
Rural Americans white, black, and indigenous have experienced benign neglect from the US government.
It is not always, or even often, benign.
Well, the individuals they vote (GOP)for if they vote is where some of their rage should be pointed! But theres a thing called personal responsibility!
They're always angry
Because they realize prosperity is based in education and the world has passed them by solely from the choices they made. Nothing else.
What they don't talk about is how "HATE" Creates More HATE !!!
Rural White Rage is a bit of a tongue twister.
If they only knew how badly Reagan was playing them 😢
Enough of the Reaganomics, Koch brothers, Powell memo nonsense.
As a non American looking in and following US politics, this is obvious, and was obvious from the start. It's what feeds Trumpism.
That ism was always there. Label throughout history just changes.
I spent the last 6 months in lower Arizona where I immediately noticed men my age will not smile.
Where I'm from all the young professionals and middle managers are quick to return a smile to anyone and are quite tolerant.
Here in AZ that same demographic, not only will they not return a smile to even a fellow white male, they seem upset with servers in the restaurant and gas station. The drive big pickup trucks and drive the single most self-centered I have ever seen. Charging around as though all right-of-way is anything they can charge on up to. Act like terrorists of the parking lot.
I wanna go home to Silicon Valley - we are not like that
Rural people tired of paying increased high prices as inflation eats away dollor value and no president stops debt from running up.
My personal belief is that the first sprinkles of white rage began around twenty years or more ago. I remember hearing many complaints about minorities receiving access to grants, loans, jobs, etc... while caucasians found that they themselves were struggling. The white struggle belief is not necessarily limited to rural America alone. My rural transplanted, christian, caucasian family reside within a large urban area & all of them are trumpers. I've retired discussing politics with them for it never ends well. I'll watch hours of conservative spews with them yet the moment the channel is switched to "MSM" they leave the room. Its disgusting behavior.
In the 1980's the ROTC office had a tabletop war game which demonstrated The Russian bloc (with greater numbers and crappier equipment) driving tanks across Germany and the west's forces needing to slow them down enough to get more equipment into theatre. I wasn't in ROTC, hence we got thrown out
say it three times fast: "We were right when we wrote White Rural Rage".... it ain't easy, you're doing great Thom! 😏
A great example of how rural people are indoctrinated is with small cattle producers. They have been partaking in right wing nut radio for decades. They have voted against their own interests for years. Now, the cattle industry in every aspect has been monopolized and they have either been forced out or have suffered huge losses.
They wouldn't know the Flag Rules (Not wearing clothing with an American flag printed on them! Flag is supposed to be displayed as "free" as possible, e.g.), never mind knowing anything about the Constitution! 🤬🤬
I have seen the' try that in a small town' bumper sticker on autos in the rural areas more than once. This is all I need to see to confirm the white rage thing. trump has made it clear that violence against anyone you think doesn't have the same beliefs as you is fine.
When doing military duties my peers listened to Mr. Limbaugh thus did I. Nuff said!
Agree. This is the base that trump despises the most.
As a black Conservative? I'd be pi$$ed. You are gonna raise MY taxes AND my cost of goods WHILE dumping criminals into my neighborhood? And, you think I'M gonna be happy about you RAISING MY TAXES AGAIN?😂😂😂 Yeah. I's be pi$$ed.
'As a black Conservative ...' you are being played just as much as the poor, rural whites.
Go back to the TVA, the WPA, and the end of slavery.
They've been angry since before the Civil War.
Due research on rural white media consumption. What articles are being put in their media consumption?
Everyday 24 hrs a day that The border is out of control. Nothing about Biden’s great economy. Nothing but negative news about Biden. Listen to conservative talk radio.
So how do White rural violent crime statistics compare with other demographics? Cancer, e-mails and smoking are not sequalae of rage.