Why Rural America Voted for Trump

[Missourian]

Yea right. A mailman stops at one place for all the people in my condo. They drive to your hick farm then to the next hick farm.

And do you know what a big business coupons in the mail is? No you don't because you're a hick.

You know those cracker barrel coupons you get in your redneck town? No ones paying to deliver to 100 farmers in Arkansas or in the Appalachians.

I think I made my point. Us liberals need to start calling out you big government conservatives.

And it should be obvious I'm not really against supplying internet all over America. It's just you hypocritees and you don't even realize you are asking the federal government to give you something your own party says you should be paying for. You all say this is not governments role.

When it's something your constituents want all sudden it's constitutional to use the federal government to do things the free market won't do.


At least now I know you all are too stupid to realize what hypocrites y'all are

Say what? That's all I get is coupons and junk mail. You think that fancy mail truck is free, or the shop and mechanics that service that fleet of trucks? Or paying a battalion of mail carriers to walk through the city? Come on...think it through. We do it cheaper and better...as usual. Have you ever been out of the city? Our mailboxes are just like yours. Mail carriers don't go down every street, and they don't stop at every house.

Now, you've been wrong about everything so far...please quit while you're behind.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Same reason why Rural parts of Afghanistan supports the taliban and Rural Egypt voted for the muslim brotherhood. You're stuck in the far past.

Hard work = stuck in the past? Is that your mentality or is Entitlement?

 

[LeftofLeft]

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Ignorance! Trump's "poorly educated" cult.

....and to think that a sitting President can cover your mortgage, gas, and give you a phone is somehow enlightened and intelligent?

 

[sealybobo]

Yea right. A mailman stops at one place for all the people in my condo. They drive to your hick farm then to the next hick farm.

And do you know what a big business coupons in the mail is? No you don't because you're a hick.

You know those cracker barrel coupons you get in your redneck town? No ones paying to deliver to 100 farmers in Arkansas or in the Appalachians.

I think I made my point. Us liberals need to start calling out you big government conservatives.

And it should be obvious I'm not really against supplying internet all over America. It's just you hypocritees and you don't even realize you are asking the federal government to give you something your own party says you should be paying for. You all say this is not governments role.

When it's something your constituents want all sudden it's constitutional to use the federal government to do things the free market won't do.


At least now I know you all are too stupid to realize what hypocrites y'all are

Say what? That's all I get is coupons and junk mail. You think that fancy mail truck is free, or the shop and mechanics that service that fleet of trucks? Or paying a battalion of mail carriers to walk through the city? Come on...think it through. We do it cheaper and better...as usual. Have you ever been out of the city? Our mailboxes are just like yours. Mail carriers don't go down every street, and they don't stop at every house.

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Now, you've been wrong about everything so far...please quit while you're behind.

I'm right about everything. I'm talking to an ignorant hick.

Funny we should all chip in so you can have internet but we shouldn't chip in so poor people can have insurance. Interesting

 

[Spare_change]

Yea right. A mailman stops at one place for all the people in my condo. They drive to your hick farm then to the next hick farm.

And do you know what a big business coupons in the mail is? No you don't because you're a hick.

You know those cracker barrel coupons you get in your redneck town? No ones paying to deliver to 100 farmers in Arkansas or in the Appalachians.

I think I made my point. Us liberals need to start calling out you big government conservatives.

And it should be obvious I'm not really against supplying internet all over America. It's just you hypocritees and you don't even realize you are asking the federal government to give you something your own party says you should be paying for. You all say this is not governments role.

When it's something your constituents want all sudden it's constitutional to use the federal government to do things the free market won't do.


At least now I know you all are too stupid to realize what hypocrites y'all are

Say what? That's all I get is coupons and junk mail. You think that fancy mail truck is free, or the shop and mechanics that service that fleet of trucks? Or paying a battalion of mail carriers to walk through the city? Come on...think it through. We do it cheaper and better...as usual. Have you ever been out of the city? Our mailboxes are just like yours. Mail carriers don't go down every street, and they don't stop at every house.

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Now, you've been wrong about everything so far...please quit while you're behind.

I'm right about everything. I'm talking to an ignorant hick.

Funny we should all chip in so you can have internet but we shouldn't chip in so poor people can have insurance. Interesting

The simplistic meanderings of the diseased mind is truly fascinating.

 

[Silhouette]

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Simple people, simple explanation: Obergefell 2015, a mandate on the next 2-3 SCOTUS Justices so it never happens again...oh...and Obama's EO during the campaign last year forcing girls in public schools to shower and undress with sexually deranged boys....all indelibly and easily associated with the democrat label.

Occam's Razor or "KISS" Keep It Simple Stupid.

 

[sealybobo]

Yea right. A mailman stops at one place for all the people in my condo. They drive to your hick farm then to the next hick farm.

And do you know what a big business coupons in the mail is? No you don't because you're a hick.

You know those cracker barrel coupons you get in your redneck town? No ones paying to deliver to 100 farmers in Arkansas or in the Appalachians.

I think I made my point. Us liberals need to start calling out you big government conservatives.

And it should be obvious I'm not really against supplying internet all over America. It's just you hypocritees and you don't even realize you are asking the federal government to give you something your own party says you should be paying for. You all say this is not governments role.

When it's something your constituents want all sudden it's constitutional to use the federal government to do things the free market won't do.


At least now I know you all are too stupid to realize what hypocrites y'all are

Say what? That's all I get is coupons and junk mail. You think that fancy mail truck is free, or the shop and mechanics that service that fleet of trucks? Or paying a battalion of mail carriers to walk through the city? Come on...think it through. We do it cheaper and better...as usual. Have you ever been out of the city? Our mailboxes are just like yours. Mail carriers don't go down every street, and they don't stop at every house.

View attachment 112220

Now, you've been wrong about everything so far...please quit while you're behind.

I'm right about everything. I'm talking to an ignorant hick.

Funny we should all chip in so you can have internet but we shouldn't chip in so poor people can have insurance. Interesting

The simplistic meanderings of the diseased mind is truly fascinating.

I know right?

I always wonder are these cons playing dumb or are they truly ignorant hypocritees?

 

[Timmy]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

...

While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

I love how these farmers act like they ain't takers .

Playa please ! Two words "Farm Bill".

Is there even another industry that gets more gov breaks than farming ???

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/econo...cles/2016-03-31/farm-bill-costs-are-exploding

Farmers don't get those deals you moron. Massive farming corporations do. Have you had your head so far up your ass you never heard of the death of the family farm? Some singer actually held a benefit concert for it called Farm Aid.

Let's say you are right . Then why vote for the GOP ? They would say "business is business , sorry family farm."

 

[sealybobo]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

...

While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

I love how these farmers act like they ain't takers .

Playa please ! Two words "Farm Bill".

Is there even another industry that gets more gov breaks than farming ???

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/econo...cles/2016-03-31/farm-bill-costs-are-exploding

Farmers don't get those deals you moron. Massive farming corporations do. Have you had your head so far up your ass you never heard of the death of the family farm? Some singer actually held a benefit concert for it called Farm Aid.

Let's say you are right . Then why vote for the GOP ? They would say "business is business , sorry family farm."

Why couldn't these guys see that's the point I'm trying to make? You got it but they were incapable of getting that. So how do you discuss things with people who either purposely or ignorantly refuse to see the point you are trying to make.

I'm not even against the idea. I'm wondering why Republicans aren't up in arms. This is federal government over reach. It's unconstitutional. And it's forcing me to pay for something just like obamacare

 

[Timmy]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

...

While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

I love how these farmers act like they ain't takers .

Playa please ! Two words "Farm Bill".

Is there even another industry that gets more gov breaks than farming ???

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/econo...cles/2016-03-31/farm-bill-costs-are-exploding

Farmers don't get those deals you moron. Massive farming corporations do. Have you had your head so far up your ass you never heard of the death of the family farm? Some singer actually held a benefit concert for it called Farm Aid.

Let's say you are right . Then why vote for the GOP ? They would say "business is business , sorry family farm."

Why couldn't these guys see that's the point I'm trying to make? You got it but they were incapable of getting that. So how do you discuss things with people who either purposely or ignorantly refuse to see the point you are trying to make.

I'm not even against the idea. I'm wondering why Republicans aren't up in arms. This is federal government over reach. It's unconstitutional. And it's forcing me to pay for something just like obamacare

I find righties have blinders on for what they get out of the gov. It's everyone else that's getting benefits . Not them .

 

[Missourian]

I'm right about everything. I'm talking to an ignorant hick.

Funny we should all chip in so you can have internet but we shouldn't chip in so poor people can have insurance. Interesting

If I'm the ignorant one, why is it you are the one who has no fucking idea what the fuck he is talking about.

Ignorant AND arrogant...even I have proved you wrong again and again...you still cling to the backward assumption in your unfathomable nescience...you are somehow superior. Keep clinging brother. So far you're batting zero.

 

[JBond]

Although Donald Trump is a minority president-elect, those who did vote for him are products of public schools in poor states.

So you believe the government is the lurking character behind the dominating win? Try a little harder before posting.

 

[Chuz Life]

What a waste of a column.

The answer is simple.

He (Trump) aint Hitlary.

No need to read any more into it than that.

 

[oreo]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

...

While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Rural people are typically conservative. But they're also not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to politics. They are easily manipulated by candidates like Trump who make all kinds of promises--delivering the ear candy--and they typically know very little about the government and how it actually works. I doubt many of them could even tell you what the 3 branches of government are, let alone their constitutional authority.

This article hits it on the nail.
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters’ brains

 

[Spare_change]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

...

While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Rural people are typically conservative. But they're also not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to politics. They are easily manipulated by candidates like Trump who make all kinds of promises--delivering the ear candy--and they typically know very little about the government and how it actually works. I doubt many of them could even tell you what the 3 branches of government are, let alone their constitutional authority.

This article hits it on the nail.
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters’ brains

What nonsense.

I'm guessing you've never met a "rural person", have you?

 

[LuckyDuck]

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Ignorance! Trump's "poorly educated" cult.

Yes, rural America does have a great deal of "less-educated" citizens. Most have a high school education or less. That said, those citizens are the ones putting food in your supermarkets and local grocery stores. They work hard, getting up before dawn and ceasing work after dusk. They are loyal to the nation and believe in that pesky Constitution that has drawn millions to our shores. Personally, if I were them, I'd unite across the land and sell their produce and meats only to republican communities and/or outside the country and let the bitchy far-leftists go hungry.

 

[Eloy]

Although Donald Trump is a minority president-elect, those who did vote for him are products of public schools in poor states.

So you believe the government is the lurking character behind the dominating win? Try a little harder before posting.

Winning with about 3,000,000 votes less than an opponent is hardly dominating.
I believe the English prime minister referred to so-called President Trump's "stunning victory".
She was obsequious.

 

[Eloy]

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Ignorance! Trump's "poorly educated" cult.

Yes, rural America does have a great deal of "less-educated" citizens. Most have a high school education or less. That said, those citizens are the ones putting food in your supermarkets and local grocery stores. They work hard, getting up before dawn and ceasing work after dusk. They are loyal to the nation and believe in that pesky Constitution that has drawn millions to our shores. Personally, if I were them, I'd unite across the land and sell their produce and meats only to republican communities and/or outside the country and let the bitchy far-leftists go hungry.

By supporting a New York real estate billionaire who is padding-out his cabinet with New York investment bankers, the farmers of the Great Plains showed remarkable faith in a so-called president very unlike themselves.

 

[Spare_change]

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Ignorance! Trump's "poorly educated" cult.

Yes, rural America does have a great deal of "less-educated" citizens. Most have a high school education or less. That said, those citizens are the ones putting food in your supermarkets and local grocery stores. They work hard, getting up before dawn and ceasing work after dusk. They are loyal to the nation and believe in that pesky Constitution that has drawn millions to our shores. Personally, if I were them, I'd unite across the land and sell their produce and meats only to republican communities and/or outside the country and let the bitchy far-leftists go hungry.

By supporting a New York real estate billionaire who is padding-out his cabinet with New York investment bankers, the farmers of the Great Plains showed remarkable faith in a so-called president very unlike themselves.

Don't let facts get in your way now ... just keep ranting the same ol' nonsense, and before you know it, it'll be 2018, and there will be even fewer of you.

 

[sealybobo]

I know, forgive me for using this source but it will occupy the liberal mind...
Why Rural America Voted for Trump

The New York Times
By ROBERT LEONARD 12 hrs ago

Knoxville, Iowa — One recent morning, I sat near two young men at a coffee shop here whom I’ve known since they were little boys. Now about 18, they pushed away from the table, and one said: “Let’s go to work. Let the liberals sleep in.” The other nodded.

They’re hard workers. As a kid, one washed dishes, took orders and swept the floor at a restaurant. Every summer, the other picked sweet corn by hand at dawn for a farm stand and for grocery stores, and then went to work all day on his parents’ farm. Now one is a welder, and the other is in his first year at a state university on an academic scholarship. They are conservative, believe in hard work, family, the military and cops, and they know that abortion and socialism are evil, that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Donald J. Trump will be good for America.

They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture — not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments — that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous.

Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I consider myself fairly liberal. My family has mostly voted Democratic since long before I was born. To be honest, for years, even I have struggled to understand how these conservative friends and neighbors I respect — and at times admire — can think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Mr. Trump.

Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here.

For me, it took a 2015 pre-caucus stop in Pella by J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister raised in the small town of Eufaula, Okla., who was a Republican congressman from 1995 to 2003, to begin to understand my neighbors — and most likely other rural Americans as well.

“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly — they are born knowing how to do that.

“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by being reborn — born again.”

He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”

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While many blame poor decisions by Mrs. Clinton for her loss, in an environment like this, the Democratic candidate probably didn’t matter. And the Democratic Party may not for generations to come. The Republican brand is strong in rural America — perhaps even strong enough to withstand a disastrous Trump presidency.

Rural conservatives feel that their world is under siege, and that Democrats are an enemy to be feared and loathed. Given the philosophical premises Mr. Watts presented as the difference between Democrats and Republicans, reconciliation seems a long way off.

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

I love how these farmers act like they ain't takers .

Playa please ! Two words "Farm Bill".

Is there even another industry that gets more gov breaks than farming ???

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/econo...cles/2016-03-31/farm-bill-costs-are-exploding

Farmers don't get those deals you moron. Massive farming corporations do. Have you had your head so far up your ass you never heard of the death of the family farm? Some singer actually held a benefit concert for it called Farm Aid.

Let's say you are right . Then why vote for the GOP ? They would say "business is business , sorry family farm."

Why couldn't these guys see that's the point I'm trying to make? You got it but they were incapable of getting that. So how do you discuss things with people who either purposely or ignorantly refuse to see the point you are trying to make.

I'm not even against the idea. I'm wondering why Republicans aren't up in arms. This is federal government over reach. It's unconstitutional. And it's forcing me to pay for something just like obamacare

I find righties have blinders on for what they get out of the gov. It's everyone else that's getting benefits . Not them .

And now that you pointed out my point the righties go silent.

No matter because they wouldn't reply with honesty anyways so I'm going to move on. I'm glad they went on and on for a couple pages not getting the point I was trying to make and then you popped in and got it right away.

It's funny to read all the things they wanted to think I was saying but they couldn't wrap their brains around the idea that they're being hypocrites wanting us to pay so farmers can have high speed internet but then they don't want to pay so poor people can have healthcare.

One of the stupid fuckers had the balls to make the argument that every other civilized country has one postal rate. Well doesn't every other country have national healthcare?