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Trump and the American Divide. This is a long but


Posted: Jan 16, 2017

and this is just an excerpt... Barack Obama’s two electoral victories deluded the Democrats into thinking that it was politically wise to jettison their old blue-collar appeal to the working classes, mostly living outside the cities these days, in favor of an identity politics of a new multicultural, urban America. Yet Trump’s success represented more than simply a triumph of rural whites over multiracial urbanites. More ominously for liberals, it also suggested that a growing minority of blacks and Hispanics might be sympathetic with a “country” mind-set that rejects urban progressive elitism. For some minorities, sincerity and directness might be preferable to sloganeering by wealthy white urban progressives, who often seem more worried about assuaging their own guilt than about genuinely understanding people of different colors. Trump’s election underscored two other liberal miscalculations. First, Obama’s progressive agenda and cultural elitism prevailed not because of their ideological merits, as liberals believed, but because of his great appeal to urban minorities in 2008 and 2012, who voted in solidarity for the youthful first African-American president in numbers never seen before. That fealty wasn’t automatically transferable to liberal white candidates, including the multimillionaire 69-year-old Hillary Clinton. Obama had previously lost most of America’s red counties, but not by enough to keep him from winning two presidential elections, with sizable urban populations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania turning out to vote for the most left-wing presidential candidate since George McGovern. In sum, Donald Trump captured the twenty-first-century malaise of a rural America left behind by globalized coastal elites and largely ignored by the establishments of both political parties. Central to Trump’s electoral success, too, were age-old rural habits and values that tend to make the interior broadly conservative. That a New York billionaire almost alone grasped how red-state America truly thought, talked, and acted, and adjusted his message and style accordingly, will remain one of the astonishing ironies of American political history. ;

This is a LONG, but very stimuolating article by VDH. He makes - the political distinction between

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primarily rural people and urban progressives. Personally, I would make the distinction primarily between rural people who tend to be conservative and have traditional biblical values because they see what works and have to live with the results vs. smug urbane progressives who often are wealthy enough to remain largely unaffected by their stupid policies and thus don't have to reconsider the wisdom (or lack thereof) of their ideas.

Dr. Thomas Sowell says that this is often true of academic intellectuals: they never have to consider if their ideas actually work because they are not punished for their bad progressive ideas. They don't suffer any consequences for their stupidity, so they never learn.

This idea of liberal elites not having to suffer the consequences of their bad ideas, and thus not learning from them, is what makes us view them as being “out-of-touch” with reality. The elites really do live in an artificial world.

Please do not apologize for the length of the piece. Writing of this - quality leaves the reader wanting

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more and more.

A quick trip to Hanson's Wikipedia bio yielded this line:

He is also a fifth-generation farmer, growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California where he resides, and is a commentator on social trends related to farming and agrarianism.

So he knows what he's talking about.

You might also like - Trump Derangement Syndrome

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the book "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. I have loaned it to a friend but plan to reread when I get it back. Have also been told that "Hillbilly Elegy" and "Strangers in their own Land" are well worth the read. The latter two are newer and harder to get from the library.

"NYT columnists have yet to find themselves flattened by - Chinese writers willing to write for a

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fraction of their per-word rate.”

True. The spoiled brats with protected jobs are clueless about the reality of 85% of Americans: replaced by cheap labor, stunned by high gas prices and sick of drugs in the high schools.

Trump and Palin both tapped into the real American experience of hurt.

It sounds to me like it's only sensible exit from the corner we were painting ourselves into, like walking across the wet paint and not caring what it looked likes or what kind of temporary mess it made. Rural vs urban living creates 2 separate worlds.

Politics wants to offer one set of rules to govern both.

Each way of life has different problems and solutions yet urbanites are obsessed with ramming their opinions down the throats of rural America.

That the resources of the rural areas are in the control of urban think is the best starting point in forming a line of defense for rural America.

Sick of urban rules and their obsessive modeling.

There are a number of good books and articles - OABO

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on this subject. The main issue, however, is why the right thinks that Donald Trump is the champion of their values. Look at his history! Both his behavior and his rhetoric have been reprehensible and he has no experience in how to get things done in government. Government is not a private business although he still seems to think it is.

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