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America is held hostage by flyover states
« on: December 14, 2016, 02:37:37 pm »
America is held hostage by flyover states
By Duane Townsend, contributor - 12/12/16 06:00 PM EST

The predominant narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential post-election analysis is: The flyover states have spoken.

A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn’t commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2016, 02:52:22 pm »
This is the kind of screed you get from people who've lived in their own tiny little bubble  for so long and realize there's a world beyond that
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2016, 02:53:25 pm »
Who elected a NY liberal

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2016, 02:56:07 pm »
Just in case the bicoastal city folk hadn't noticed, we are America. Y'all are just the bookends.
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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2016, 02:57:23 pm »
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The poor will get no practical relief. Living wages will remain a distant dream. Healthcare costs will remain the major source of bankruptcy. Environmental issues will intensify to unknown crisis proportions. Women’s reproductive rights will be under constant attack and eroded. Race relations will devolve to tribal levels of disdain and mistrust.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2016, 03:00:38 pm »
Duane Townsend is life-long resident of Detroit, Mich., and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape.

So Duane can't understand why people don't want anymore of the same govt' that made his city a shithole.

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« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2016, 03:00:47 pm »
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2016, 03:01:07 pm »
Boo hoo, those evil hard-working Christian Americans (bitterly clinging, etc., etc.). We're the ones who pay the $*%# taxes that fund this idiot's beloved welfare state.
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2016, 03:01:42 pm »
America is held hostage by flyover states
By Duane Townsend, contributor - 12/12/16 06:00 PM EST

The predominant narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential post-election analysis is: The flyover states have spoken.

A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn’t commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/310054-america-is-held-hostage-by-flyover-states

There is no reconciling this point of view with anything remotely resembling reality.

There's no point in even trying. It simply needs to be crushed.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2016, 03:03:03 pm »
Just in case the bicoastal city folk hadn't noticed, we are America. Y'all are just the bookends.

They should secede. We can always cut out a few more red stars.




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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2016, 03:18:47 pm »
America is held hostage by flyover states
By Duane Townsend, contributor - 12/12/16 06:00 PM EST

The predominant narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential post-election analysis is: The flyover states have spoken.

A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn’t commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/310054-america-is-held-hostage-by-flyover-states
Okay, I read the whole thing.

Wow.

@mystery-ak @Quix Don't you think this should be over in the Alternate Realities section? Maybe Science Fiction (although the science is weak). The writer is obviously not from the same planet.
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« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2016, 03:20:05 pm »
Okay, I read the whole thing.

Wow.

@mystery-ak @Quix Don't you think this should be over in the Alternate Realities section? Maybe Science Fiction (although the science is weak). The writer is obviously not from the same planet.

Is Detroit a planet?

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2016, 03:22:17 pm »
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The more entrenched the flyover voting bloc becomes in their voting habits, the further they fall behind economically, by voting against their own interests, the more they blame Washington, D.C. and coastal "liberal elites" for their issues.


They voted for Obama, and how have their "own interests" done? Pretty bad I'd say.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2016, 03:29:08 pm »
America is held hostage by flyover states
By Duane Townsend, contributor - 12/12/16 06:00 PM EST

The predominant narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential post-election analysis is: The flyover states have spoken.

A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn’t commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.

Wow.  See, son, this little tantrum is precisely why we base the presidential election on the electoral college as opposed to the popular vote.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2016, 03:31:35 pm »
Okay, I read the whole thing.

Wow.

@mystery-ak @Quix Don't you think this should be over in the Alternate Realities section? Maybe Science Fiction (although the science is weak). The writer is obviously not from the same planet.

Ah come one..he's just a few classes short of earning his degree at the University of Life
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2016, 03:36:55 pm »
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2016, 03:39:36 pm »
Dear Blue States of Permanent Dependency:

It's our money you're feasting on. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, and good luck with that whole socialist "we're-all-in-this-together-so-government-theft-is-okay" thing.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2016, 04:40:02 pm »
Is Detroit a planet?
I don't know. It's small the atmosphere can be harmful to human life due to the lead and stupidity in it. Maybe we class it like Pluto.
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2016, 06:12:15 pm »
OK, let's address a few of this guy's fears:

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     The poor will get no practical relief. Living wages will remain a distant dream.
What he doesn't realize is that in rural America, expenses are a greater concern than income. Big cities far removed from their way of life aren't some resource to be tapped like a mine.

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Healthcare costs will remain the major source of bankruptcy.
And the left's solution is to force them to buy insurance they can't afford, or force them to pay up anyway if they can't.

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Environmental issues will intensify to unknown crisis proportions.
Speculative, like almost all modern environmentalism.

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Women’s reproductive rights will be under constant attack and eroded.
Here's a news flash: the right to kill your own young isn't seen as a right around these parts.

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Race relations will devolve to tribal levels of disdain and mistrust.
Not in rural America, anyway, because there are very few race relations to deal with. The vast majority of minorities live in the cities.
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2016, 07:27:49 pm »
And the left's solution is to force them to buy insurance they can't afford, or force them to pay up anyway if they can't.

More to the point: "insurance" that they can afford, typically has such high deductibles that it's essentially no different from no insurance at all.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2016, 07:32:09 pm »
There is no reconciling this point of view with anything remotely resembling reality.

There's no point in even trying. It simply needs to be crushed.

Agree. This is as close to leftist jihadist fatwa as it gets. You're not going to change cult zealots, or reason with them.
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« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2016, 07:39:56 pm »
Ah come one..he's just a few classes short of earning his degree at the University of Life

He takes all his class pass fail and still drops them before midterms.

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2016, 07:47:24 pm »
Is Detroit a planet?
Judging by the article, from a galaxy far, far, away. More like an asster...hemmer... oh one of those -oids, anyway.
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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2016, 07:56:09 pm »
Ah come one..he's just a few classes short of earning his degree at the University of Life
Well, it just goes to show how gloriously varied life experiences can be. He really should get out more. Like out of his neighborhood and travel around the country.


But just a few thousand more cereal box puzzles and mail in the box tops and they should send him a sheepskin.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: America is held hostage by flyover states
« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2016, 02:55:03 am »
Duane Townsend:
"America is held hostage by flyover states"

Reality:


Of special interest:
Note that even in liberal Connecticut, two counties "went red"...