Wow, the Deplorables really don't like us
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.
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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.
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This is why I love DU! 
Truth is, the feeling is mutual. 
That must have been impossible to explain to a young kindergarten child. 
Cheers to the officer for doing the right thing and sticking that A-hole in his place! 
Just north of you in Butler. Same here, maybe worse.
One would ~think~ that a county dominated by a vibrant University (WVU) and college-town would have stayed 'blue' through this last election mess...
One would be very, very wrong...
~Even Mon. Co.~ went red this last cycle, though by a lesser margin than anywhere else in the state (which doesn't say much)
So sick of these people, already...
The fact that the GOP has allowed this flat out lie to go on for as long as it has is something that needs to be dealt with. It's such fucking horseshit that they get to claim the working class as their own and say that we don't work. The truth is we want to make things better for the working class, the republicans want all the money to go to the bosses who make our lives miserable. 
After expressing some liberal view on a blog somewhere, this idiot told me that I was a democrat "because I depended on 'government handouts'"...I responded that since my household income was well into six figures, I didn't need "handouts" from anyone, but I had no problem helping the less fortunate....This is an automatic response in some quarters. 
Somehow they fail to see it as "big gubmint".
The hate and lies being spread about us has created a false narrative. Every time I see some jackass trying to hawk a "liberal tears" coffee mug on Twitter and Facebook it makes me just cringe. They just don't get how hateful they are. And the GOP thinks we're out of touch. They want us to understand them, but they don't want to understand us. It's sickening. It works both ways. No I don't want to understand your bigotry and white supremacism. Fuck that shit. I think they're the ones who are out of touch. The people they elect have done nothing but loot and pillage and pass the blame onto us. It's time this ends.
Bill Maher was right - small towns are small for a reason - nobody wants to live there! I mean why should the vote of a person who lives in a town of 500 get more of a say than a person who lives in a city like LA, New York, Chicago, Miami, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, or Denver? I just don't get it.
People who live in big cities don't understand people who live in small towns and vice versa. I live in Los Angeles. I travel to other big cities like Boston, New York, DC, Seattle, Denver, Detroit - those are great cities. Would I travel to Billings, Montana, or Plains, Georgia, or Crawford, Texas? Not on a bet! Rural America needs to understand that nobody wants to attack them. Pretty much they attack each other. We in the big cities do recognize that rural America needs to exist, but rural America needs to understand that not everybody is like them, and there's other people besides white males who should be in charge. The hate and white supremacy that has come out of everybody since the election is sick. 
And said divisiveness is the root cause of one thing and one thing only - the fucking 2nd amendment. Do they care that the Constitution guarantees that pesky "liberal media" that they have as much right to speak their mind as the conservative business run media does? No. Do they care that Colin Kaepernick has a 1st amendment guaranteed right to protest? No. Do they care that Islam is protected under freedom of religion? No. Do they care that black people being murdered by police is a direct violation of the 4th amendment (illegal search and seizure) and the 5th amendment (right to a fair trial)? Absolutely not. But just the mere mention of gun control and they go fucking apeshit. Like the government is coming to take their guns away. Give me a fucking break. But they're happy (not) and they work hard. So that's all that matters, right?
I'm neither misinformed, loathsome or weak, yes I can be as dangerous times 2 as these republican racists are in celebrating their fascism with the threats of their fuhrer and their actions toward usually AA protestors at their Nuremberg rallies. No reconciliation, so what? This is the start of the 2nd Civil War in ameriKKKa, and I'll be damned if I let a country I fought for diminish my humanity based on something as superficial as skin color, religion or culture. Fuck a conservative trumpfuhrer voter. I damn them to hell...... 
They have fired the first shot at Fort Sumpter 2.....
for medicare and infrastructural improvement is by dipping into farm subsidies. In fact, just how much of my tax money goes to paying these bums? Rural America is all about government handouts. There is truth to my 
How much money is it going to take to bail these people out when the Ogallala aquifer runs dry in a few years?
so of course they are more superior and virtuous.
universities and probably that academic scholarship, too. amirite?
