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In reply to the discussion: Rural living. [View all]Squinch
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When a storm is coming and we go to the grocery store, we chat without becoming impatient or grumpy too. We don't cut people off on line either. We don't run down the pedestrians in the parking lot either.
We help out our neighbors too. Some of my neighbors own guns too. About the gun issue, we understand that no one is trying to take away those guns, we all just want sensible gun laws in the light of the gun idiocy that is in the news every day.
There are a lot of urban situations that don't fit rural wisdom. We don't expect rural people to twist themselves in knots to understand us. It just isn't necessary.
What we expect from our political party is a solid platform that benefits us and works against the party that steals from us, punishes the vulnerable and lies constantly. That's all. We don't require that everyone soul search themselves about why we are unhappy. If we get the platform we want, we will take care of our own happiness.
People criticize urban people. All the time. They make generalizations. They post threads about how rural people are civil human beings and imply that urban people are not. We don't give much of a shit. We don't punish the nation by voting for a madman because rural people look down on us.
Seems to me the big difference is that we don't vote like imbeciles and then demand understanding when the shit comes down.