Akno21
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 25, 2005, 11:28:36 PM » |
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Candidates seem to like to parade around, in real-life, and in Fantasy Politics, that they are from a small town, have small town or "main street" values, and represent the heartland. This does not make any sense to me.
Can somone please explain why you should parade around the fact that you come from a small, rural town in Iowa, but it's shameful to work for a stock broker in New York City? Since when are people who don't come from the small towns lacking values, and how the hell is a value you learn in the "heartland" any better than a "value" you learn in a city?
People from more populous, coastal areas aren't raised to be dishonest cheats, we are just as good as everyone else. People in New Jersey are just as hard-working as people in Kansas, but successful political figures all seem to say they are from the heartland of the country. Why can't they be from the coasts, they aren't inferior to the heartland.
The whole perception that the best is in the small town values, from the heartland, is complete BS, just as it would be to say another part of the country is better than everywhere else.
Is anyone else sick of the notion that white collar workers in the Northeast, Pacific Coast or anywhere else aren't as good as blue collar ones from the small towns in the heartland?
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