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Rural folks don't want policies except for one. They want to be left the fuck alone. At all times. They feel like being racist? They want everyone to let them. They want to not give a shit about climate? They want everyone to let them. Tax man cometh? They'd love to be able to point a shotgun at him, but they're mostly more civil than that. They hate nothing more than the idea of a system beyond what they themselves come up with and understand.
The problem is modern times have made that stance less practical. That's the heart of the urban/rural divide.
That's just fuckin ignorant. I live in rural America (upstate NY). I'm a Democrat. I'm a gun owner. I used to be a card carrying NRA member (I was young but that's only so much an excuse). I'm a staunch pro choice AKA it's none of my fuckin business supporter. I don't think I pay enough taxes and i don't make all that much. I do think my fuckin tax money is pissed away at an alarming rate so i completely understand those who don't believe in raising taxes.
I don't make idiotic generalizations based on the contents of my bowels to support whatever angle you tried to approach at. You burned up on entry dude/dudette. Everyone has a past and wildly differentiating circumstances as to why they support what they support. Ignorance is just a slice.
I certainly wasn't trying to state that I was describing every single rural person in America. Just the broader culture of it. Sorry if I bothered you.
Fair enough, i def overreacted. That's def a my bad.
No worries. You did help illuminate that even rural culture is not homogenous by any stretch. Even in deep red middle America there is bound to be some variety.
You know you can pay them more if you want to, feel free!
Alright well at least you get me lol. You'd be surprised how few people even acknowledge it as a problem much less understand why one would be upset about said problem.
"What is the village but a sink of localism, a den ofignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?"
-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
https://web.archive.org/web/20180110194134/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol7p1b.htm
(Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.)