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An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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And how do you expect people to do that exactly? Move to the city with what money? Start new businesses with what money?
I’m not claiming it’s easy or fun, but trying anything is more likely to work than just digging in your heels. Trying anything is more likely to work than falling for some grifter bs’ing you. Facing reality and at least looking for ways to overcome or listening to others ideas is more likely to work than hiding from reality.
Maybe this is just the usual media rage bait, but every time I read about such an area voting for someone just to throw a monkey wrench in the works to hurt others too or someone conservative ready to try the same things that haven’t worked before or someone promising the stars without a space program, I have to think a lot of this is self-inflicted. Every time you cut investments in education or science, or the environment, it’s self-inflicted, every time you want to cut safety nets when you or your neighbors are likely to need a hand up at some point, youre hurting yourself. Most importantly, every time you reject new technology, new businesses, new attempts to help your future, because the old isn’t serving you well, it’s self-inflicted.
I’m sure I’m getting it wrong since i can’t walk in their shoes but I know my area has lots of advantages, and many are our choices, our attitudes, our votes, our investments. Why does it seem like some people use their choices, votes, attitudes only to hurt or limit themselves?
Yeah, but... what options do these people have outside of Vote Blue and hope some social program opens up to lift them out? One that's meant to target poor people in the city and not necessarily the rural area.