2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How were we supposed to reach 'Rural Whites' and still maintain our base? [View all]Afromania
(2,768 posts)Can you think of anything to say to them other than outright lies? Nobody is condemning ALL rural voters just the ones that have voted for a guy that is ridiculously unqualified and continue to vote Republican for EVERYTHING ELSE. Why do they need hand holding to understand that we are all in this together? Do they not understand that if you give people that, work against your interests, to just about every official office in the country you're going to get policy that works against your interests? The president is one person with power checked directly by the other two branches of government and not so directly by state governments and the people that hold those positions.
Part of the reason they are where they are is that they while they might have voted for Obama A Black Man, and Hillary:A Woman. Instead they've uniformly voted for Republican:Strip their rights for everything else. Furthermore they have been doing so for a long damn time and will continue to do it without nary a clue as to why things keep getting worse for them. Perhaps, if they would have put more Dems, Indies or even Repubs that wouldn't willingly steal everything from them into power over the last 50ish years they could've kept/returned some prosperity to their areas as well as the rest of the country too.
Don't worry the party is going to go extinct anyway when we can't breath the air, fish the fisheries and drink the water. All of this is going to happen because people can't be bothered to get involved or the fickle Rural Voter(this does not include ANY of the rural people that see the bullshit for what is and vote for people that actually give a damn) keeps putting people in power that doesn't care about anything as long as they get theirs. For those people I simply do not give a flipping fuck if they join us in trying to save this flying rock pile or not. They will NEVER join us in trying to save things until the shit has absolutely covered the entire fan... and it's no longer spinning.. and we are all dead.