Frank Rich: "No Sympathy for the Hillbilly"

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This website has a serious obsession with defending rural voters at any opportunity and calling anyone who disagrees with placating them an elitist bigot. 

What happened to the Republican up by the bootstraps mentality.  Rural areas generally receive more from the government than they pay in taxes, this is simply a fact.

The pull your self up the bootstrap argument is the worst one out there.

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How do you gain votes from an electorate convinced that tax cuts spur economic growth, and that healthcare costs can be lowered by letting insurance companies operate beyond state lines (whatever that entails...), that unionization of the manufacturing sector lowers workers' standards of living -- and all that other rot -- that their deeply held political principles are just shibboleths? Efforts by the Democratic Party to argue otherwise just amounts to Democrats lecturing voters that their false beliefs are indeed false -- and no likes a lecturing hectoring know-it-all.

Maybe because all of them don't believe that, especially considering how many of these voters were democrat before.

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"Your own paycheck" is only your own because the State has built institutions that makes it possible for social parasites like you to accumulate wealth at the expense of everybody else. The State giveth and the State taketh away.

I love it when someone who wants free stuff calls someone who works 60-70 hours a week a "social parasite" - you are the definition of pathetic.

You can be a parasite, and be rich, yes. There is nothing wrong with giving people free stuff, and you are getting the same amount of rights as poor people, and actually paying the same amount of tax. As you live in a society, you contribute to the society, to give free "stuff".

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Either way, if the voices encouraging Democrats to simply ignore the interests of poor voters who have been un-enthused by the party over the past decade prevail, the consequences will be even uglier than what we are witnessing today. A party that decides that certain communities "deserve to die" because they are "negative assets" is a party that deserves to die itself.

It's ironic, because for all the faults of the Republican Party nowadays, I rarely hear them say stuff like this. It's mostly Democrats that are basically alienating places like West Virginia, Arkansas, rural Ohio, etc. that are struggling with this global economy with this talk of pulling away from coal and liquidating the mines.

I have to point out that the Democratic Party has changed dramatically. It used to be about protecting the working class. It's slipped away and has become a neoliberal party that is basically economically moderate and socially liberal, as most people realize. This is a deadly combination for the Appalachian and Midwestern states.

Good! 

And a party to which you shouldn't belong in.