Inflation is crushing rural America

[Ferguson97]

I do believe many left-wing voters (around the world, but especially in this country) secretly hold serious contempt for rural areas, their lifestyles, and their values, and therefore see any sort of negative development in rural America that pushes it’s populace to urban areas as a good thing, where they can accept urban, progressive values.

A few things here:

1. You can have contempt for someone on a personal level, and still want to ensure that their material needs are met, because they are fellow human beings.

2. Urbanization is a good thing in and of itself, for economic and climate reasons, and has nothing to do with cultural issues.

[Ferguson97]

Those same rural voters will deliver a GOP Congress that will immediately pass tax cuts for the rich. So why is there such a huge disconnect between what their reality is and and what their politcal action and advocacy is?

This is posted like it's some sort of "gotcha" that owns the dumb rubes but, really, if the liberal movement in this country had any sort of non-braindead answer to this question they'd probably be able to consistently hold federal or even statewide power.

We know the answer to the question, we just don't believe that the concessions we would have to make to earn their vote are worth it.