I just love it when some sh*t for brains from the cities tells me what "white, rural voters" think.
Yo! Professor Svengali!
Do you do this as a road tour?
BTW, all those "conspiracy theories" from '
the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination' to "
COVID-19 was lab generated" just happened to be
true.
So drop the "conspiracy theory" pejorative bit and let's just split them into confirmed and unconfirmed theories.
As for "racist and xenophobic", we notice new people in our small communities.
That doesn't have a thing to do with racism, because we notice all of them. We meet them, observe and see if they are going to be an asset to the community, neutral, or trouble, and respond in kind. It isn't prejudice, more like a probationary period, and those who stand out by their actions or character, for good or bad, are noticed. Race has little to do with that, but if you start acting like
big city street people criminals or jerks, you will be noticed.
But you are spewing more city slicker sanctimony, from people who don't produce anything but ill founded opinions. Who did you poll? Were your poll populations selected for a good demographic fit in areas that wouldn't know an elm from an apple tree in August?
Get a flat tire in a small town, and someone will likely help you change it, even if you reek of being city folk. Your car is highly unlikely to be damaged or robbed, and you are far more likely to be helped than looted, unlike what we see of your urban environment. Try that in a big town, where the criminal element can hide in the anonymity of the herd, and prey on the unfortunate almost at will. For all that sanctimony, how many of those apartment dwellers know the people in the apartments on either side of them or just across the hall. That's a peculiar isolation that y'all seem to think is 'tolerance', at least until you get all in the faces of people who don't think in lockstep with you on the sidewalk.
For anyone who is familiar with Calhoun's rat studies, it doesn't take much to see where the sickness is, nor why, but you would judge us ill for living a more free existence, where the opinions of socially prejudiced university professors don't mean squat.
We live too close to a cow pasture to not know what bovine excrement is, but you might fool the residents of the steel and glass and concrete rat mazes y'all inhabit; not 'nature', but seminally unnatural, the pride of those who have created their artificial environment.
We are, after all, at least to some extent, a product of our surroundings, so not much I hear out of your environment surprises me.
Out here in the hinterlands, we not only know the freshness of the air, the cool taste of clean water, the almost sensual flavor of really fresh food. Many of us have grown, raised or caught or harvested, skinned and prepared our own food, picked berries and made jam, and even have our own fruit trees.
We like it that way. Many of us have college degrees, but also possess some technical skills in which we are proficient. Modern farming and ranching use both, provided a person obtained their degree in something useful, unlike sitting on TV and telling people you have no understanding of what they supposedly think. Our environment makes us feel closer to Almighty God, not like we are some substitute for Him.
From Matthew 7:
1 Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
But the same verse admonishes us to not cast our pearl before swine...
Wisdom, thousands of years old.
The same chapter says:
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Need I say more?
Sanctimony from Baltimore and environs? Physician, heal thyself.
