Reply #138: "Easily led" in one person's vernacular....

[Syntheto]

...would be considered "Stupid", "Naive", or the ever-popular "Sheeple" by any thinking person, and some folks might take exception to that kind of rhetorical pigeon-holing. We need candidates to address the concerns of all Americans, and not just those in the major US population centers. Mostly rural areas have concerns far different than city dwellers, and they don't feel as if their problems are even considered, except every election cycle. Bridge improvement, dams to create recreational lakes and hydro power, water rights as well as highway, secondary road, hunting and fishing and agricultural run-off legislation means more to people than "glamor" issues like gay marriage and security cameras on every block. Do city people really care about "flyover country", other than to chastise them in exasperation every four years for being stupid? Believe it or not, we all fly the flag out here. We want a Democrat, but one who shares our version and vision of America: with all it's flaws, it's still the best. Rhetoric hinting that we are all merely xenophobic rednecks with one hand on the bible and the other holding a gun is not going to go over well, especially when it's couched in terms that seem to be meant as an inside joke among urbanites, as if the rubes were too stupid to get it. If the candidates didn't need our support as well, why even bother?