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Small towns are pissed because they are starting to have big town problems! I get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spent considerable time in two small towns growing up. In both places it did not take long before I knew pretty much every bodoies name that I would run into. I did not need an ID at the bank the teller knew me personally and my siblings names and my parents names. I very rarely ever locked the door in either town there was no need. When I lived in these towns it had been like fifty years since there had been a murder in either one. Now here comes this opiate epidemic and all that has changed. Murders, theft and break ins now happen in both places. Both places have opiate overdoses they are nothing like when I lived there. I am pissed and I do not live in either place any more.It is real easy, he is a despicable human being!
What specifically did Trump do to make you angry?
Pretty much everything about him. You do know he is a liberal at heart don't you?
Eating your own again?
In what way dupe?
First of all the so-called sociologist can't distinguish anger from concern. Hard to imagine he can get any good data, given his bias from the start. Also, in typical liberal fashion, he confuses the progressive movement with positive change. In the long term, no one really benefits from lower standards.
It takes food to keep a nation going, that comes from rural areas and always will. Go ahead and change that part of society so it doesn't function and see how great a country you have. Perhaps this gentleman was not given good information because he came off as a city slicker. Whatever the reason, he certainly did not learn a thing, nor help the cause of understanding.
City slicker or not, he is an outsider and that gives him a neutral perspective I think. He is uninvolved. He had a question and went to the people involved to find the answers.
Washington has always been the target. How can you target culture...who is your focus? Job loss...who do you focus your blame ... who can you blame? Not some vague ideas but something concrete, the people who are supposed to represent you but don’t seem to listen once in office.
Part of the problem is rural areas are in trouble. Agriculture is declining, fewer people want to farm or follow in the professions that s all towns need to sustain their economies. Small towns across America are losing population, and once you get below a critical mass you lose the services needed to sustain them, grocery stores, clinics, etc. my state is full of places like that and it is sad. I don’t know what the answer is, but I suspect we can’t turn back the clock, we have to find new ways while respecting and valuing the old.
And I think that is part of the problem...a problem I acknowledge “my side” the left, needs to examine within its own ranks. A pervasive contempt for these people and their institutions: faith, morality, building things, family. It is a contempt that devalues their core values and reduces them to labels..fundies, rednecks, etc. as opposed to people. We aren’t going to solve anything as long as we don’t respect each other.
Damn...I spent some time righting this when bang...some one set off a stink bug nearby. I do not respect stink bugs.