In the popular imagination of many Americans, particularly those on the left side of the political spectrum, the typical MAGA supporter is a rural resident who hates Black and Brown people, loathes liberals, loves gods and guns, believes in myriad conspiracy theories, has little faith in democracy, and is willing to use violence to achieve their goals, as thousands did on Jan. 6.
According to a new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, these arenāt hurtful, elitist stereotypes by Acela Corridor denizens and bubble-dwelling liberalsā¦ theyāre facts.
The authors, Tom Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman, a former columnist at The Washington Post, persuasively argue that most of the negative stereotypes liberals hold about rural Americans are actually true.
āmass of progressive politiciansā so you want every single person in America to think, act, feel, and vote the same? That doesnāt happen anywhere in the worldā¦well, except communist countries of course.
Thatās not what they said. Progressive is just basically rational. Progressives think differently about things all the time. It isnāt really a nailed-down ideology of any sort.
Whereas conservatives are notable for not thinking much about anything at any time. Besides their fears. Having no discernible ideology themselves other than they want what they want. And they need someone to hate and scapegoat.
An liberals are? Why do these articles always attack one side? I live in California, Iām seeing first hand what these extreme liberal views are doing. Thereās people literally fighting for the right to allow the homeless to use drugs, shoot up heroin, and shit and piss wherever they wantā¦ itās ridiculous. And donāt get me started on the petty crime thatās being ignoredā¦because apparently, according to liberals, we need to completely revamp our criminal and judicial system because people who steal shit shouldnāt be going to prisonā¦ itās fucking ridiculous.
More so than conservatives? Absolutely. Still not great. Also remember that progressives!=liberals. Some liberals are mildly progressive sure. Not enough of them or progressive enough.
The reason articles tend to attack a specific side pretty regularly. Is because theyāre abjectly horrible and significantly worse than the next worst group around. Which happens to be liberals. Who are also very shit.
Nah, Saint Ronnie shuttering mental hospitals national wide. Pushing those people out on to the streets untreated. Is literally what caused all of that. But thatās blasphemy to say innāit? You expect the state or police to have the time or funds to police such things. While closing the only, already inadequate system focused on taking care of those people. While voting at every turn to starve state and federal government of funds and resources to actually handle such situations. Irrationally frothing at the mouth about how your parties actions are all the fault of those evil liburuls!
Prison should only be a solution for those that pose an actual threat to society. Petty theft and drug use aināt it. Itās pretty inhuman and grotesque the way you treat it as some garbage dump to permanently dispose of people you donāt like. Especially irrational when your realize that theyāll get out eventually. But that not only is recidivism far too high because prison doesnāt actually address any actual problems. It actually trains them to be better criminals.
This is exactly what I was talking about. Youāre behaving irrational and vindictive. Blaming everyone but yourself for the problems you create and seek to exacerbate as a āconservativeā. You complain about people complaining about the failures of the system, even as you champion the failed system. Putting itās failures on the group your cult told you to hate. Itās 100% bananas. And you refuse to see it.
Iāll rag on liberals all day long. I barely have even faint praise to give them sparingly. But my god, conservatives somehow make them seem reasonable.