Berkeley ‘instructor’: ‘Rural Americans’ are ‘bad people’

I live in an isolated rural area and always have at least for the last 15 years give or take.

Most of the radio stations are either music or sports related. And every place I know of has access to local news. It's one of the options on my DISH tv service. And I pick up a newspaper nearly every day.

Otherwise your post in complete sanctimony with no basis in facts whatsoever.

 

The nature of the livestock industry is for ranchers to raise the animals to a certain age. For cattle, they are then sent to feedlots to be finished off. The animals are sent to butchering plants that tend to be in cities. Both Chicago and Denver first became large cities because of the meat industry. The meat is then sent out in a distribution system that is typically controlled from a central city.

Did you ever hear the song Peaches, by the band The Presidents of the United States?

"Peaches come from a can,
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way,
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun-soakin' bulges in the shade
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches"
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat me a lot of peaches

 

Obviously that isn't true anymore. It is better to admit to irreconcilable differences than trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, until we have a civil war.

And this is more about red states and blue states. Rural California is a far cry from rural Alabama,

 

Oregon also has a thriving agricultural industry. West of the Cascades it rains quite a bit. The warming Earth, including the increased carbon in the atmosphere, has caused Oregon to see increasing yields, especially with grapes. Most of the productive areas are in Congressional districts held by Democrats. I think half of the Christmas trees in the country come from Oregon.

 

That is just about eh most ignorant post I have seen. Especially since the 2012 study showed republicans as being the most informed.

By the way. We have Dish. We get all the local stations.

 

Garbage. It's as true now as ever but people like you and the OP want to CAUSE the division you decry

 

Clearly you do not understand agriculture. Perhaps you’ve been brainwashed.

 

You people make me sick.

My family was from cow country and I spent my summers there. Great people. Not any different than myself

I moved from the NY metro area to upstate NY several years back. My neighbors are "country". We get along great. They have the same needs and desires as I do. They care about family,work, healthcare...and a bit of fun when you can find it.

No difference

 

My in laws canned fruit off their own trees, killed their chickens, grew their veggies, fished in the stock of tank, and took a cow to the local slaughter house.

 

These good people vs bad people stereotypes needs to stop as there are good and bad people on all sides. Simply having a different political view does not make one bad. Those who think it does are part of the problem as antagonism breeds antagonism.

 

My family on my father's side did most of that as well

 

Don't stop there. We must also include minerals, fossil fuels, lumber and paper including the Amazon box delivered to your front door, recreation, fresh air. The rural areas and the people that live and work there keep the lights on in the city , power the autos, and produce the food. And as someone said, many of those brilliant minds now residing in cities were produced in rural America.

 

Rural Americans are just as bad as urban Americans..

 

Ironic if you think about it, without Trump's trade war China would be outbidding you for your food.

 

None of which exist in the urban cities.

California is quite red outside of the major cities.

Try to keep up.

 

Cant butcher beef if you don't have any cows.

You guys are simply in denial about where your food comes from.

 

He argued that promoting a need for “affordable rural healthcare” is equivalent to arguing for rural Americans “to be subsidized by those who choose a more efficient way of life.”

“Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes,” Kernion added.​

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13975

It comes off as a kind of parody or mockery of typical rural conservative arguments against socialist government policies, especially subsidies. Like them, he is basing his arguments on economics without regard for the welfare of his fellow Americans.

 

Ignorance like this is what keeps the country so polarized.

When you are driving across the country.... and get to my neck of the woods please just keep driving. You will know when you are in "my neck of the woods" as you will start seeing hillbillies and rednecks and children with that retarded inbred look. You will see broken down cars and houses with open doors and broken windows. And behind the houses you will see the bathrooms next to the still. If all that is not a dead giveaway listen closely and you will likely hear banjos. The accelerator is the pedal on the right.

 

Given that only 27% of registered voters actually voted for Trump, it's hard to declare anything remotely like support for any one candidate.

 

Except that cow country folk aren't trying to take your guns.

Wanna take a guess who is trying to take their guns?

 

I grew up on a farm. As my sister used to say, the problem with living on the farm is that is surrounded by hicks.

 

His brainwashing is complete, which is why he is qualified to brainwash others. If you get the impression that Liberals don't have two neurons to rub together, this explains it.

 

When I was a child, we had this pen where we kept the bull, the stud of the season. You probably don't know this, but dairy farmers have two types of what people call bails of hay. One type is green, usually of alfalfa and is used as feed. This is called hay. The other, also sometimes called hay, and is usually the type used on hay rides, usually a yellowish tan color, is actually straw. Is made from the remaining stocks of harvested plants. As a child, it was one if things I found so interesting, the workings of the machines that bailed hay.

Anyhow, the purpose of the straw is to lay it on the ground, under the animals, so as to catch the wastes dropping out of the animals. It makes for easy cleanup. One scoops up the straw, which is then spread out across the fields, as fertilizer. Being as there are plenty of bull droppings in that straw, farmers all across America are literally spreading Bull Stuff all over rural America.

 

In the South, the people are genetically predisposed to be conservative. So it doesn't take a lot of effort. But west of the Mississippi, it is a lot different. The wide open spaces mean that one can drive for hours, going from town to town. In some areas, only one or two radio stations can be picked up. And Rush is usually on one, if not both.

Before Reagan, we had the fairness doctrine, which required radio stations to be balanced in their broadcasts. Now, a whole swatch of America gets only a skewed version of the news.

 

I grew up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, using preserves that my mom had canned. We always had a pig or two around, that we gave names like Lunch or Pork Chop. My dad would hook these chains around the pig's hind legs, bop it on the head, hoist it up, cut it's throat, drain it out, then slice it open, and pull all the guts out, blop blop, plop on the ground.