This is the mainstream left now. The time for debate is over. These people must be defeated.

I don't know any white rural person, and I know a bunch, that believes the president should be able to do what he wants without checks. That's one of the claims made.

According to these two Liberal authors, white rural voters are the biggest threat to democracy. pic.twitter.com/lEjHJqbOLt

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 29, 2024

This is the description of their book from Amazon

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White Rural Rage: The Threat To American Democracy

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizenswho are also the least likely to defend its core principles

"This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump."David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis

White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they're right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their ragestoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media now poses an existential threat to the United States.

Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans' attitude might best be described as "I love my country, but not our country," Schaller and Waldman argue. This phenomenon is the patriot paradox of rural America: The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles. And by stoking rural Whites' anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, conservative politicians and talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are undermining American democracy.

Schaller and Waldman provocatively critique both the structures that permit rural Whites' disproportionate influence over American governance and the prospects for creating a pluralist, inclusive democracy that delivers policy solutions that benefit rural communities. They conclude with a political reimagining that offers a better future for both rural people and the rest of America.

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AgGrad99 said:

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I am so sick of these people saying EVERYTHING is a 'threat to democracy'

It doesnt even mean anything anymore.

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Agreed. It's what Democrats say about anyone or anything that threatens their power - that's all it is.

So basically if you are White and live outside a city then you are a threat to democracy or is it a threat to Democratic Party Rule ? ?

I just wish that they would come out and say it "White People are the Problem"

White rural voters? I'm surprised F16 would get upset at that. I thought you all were black urban women on an Ag school football forum.

I feel so dirty.

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"Freedom is a threat to democracy"

I'm waiting for this stupidity to be said next.

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That's coming.

So is "Voting is a threat to democracy".

We've convinced the public that education and knowledge are part of the racist, white, patriarchy.
I see people spouting this nonsense, without irony, with full conviction, very soon.

Only a matter of time until we get separated in "provinces" to serve Capitol City

Yup. You will own nothing. Eat Soylent Green. You will not be able to travel. And you will work for the elites.

It will be a very rude awaking when the alphabet group, poor minorities, and middle class liberals are no longer any use to the elites.

We're going to have to shove some democracy up their backsides and break it off for them to get what it is, apparently

swampstander said:

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I feel so dirty.

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Yet proud at the same time.

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Democracy : a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

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What part of this definition do the libs not understand?

Logos Stick said:

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This is the mainstream left now. The time for debate is over. These people must be defeated.

I don't know any white rural person, and I know a bunch, that believes the president should be able to do what he wants without checks. That's one of the claims made.

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They are directly threatening people now with no fear of consequences. I have never seen anything this flagrant and in your face.

Nothing but pure fear mongering hate speech in that segment. Basically declaring rural christian people enemies of there so called twisted version of "democracy". Its this kind of rhetoric that will bring about the violence they speak of. They are doing their best to provoke it.

They and even the librtards on this board will not see the hypocrisy. These clown deserve jail time for hate speech.

And I'm not even a rural American. I have lived and worked in metro counties all my life.

PCC_80 said:

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So basically if you are White and live outside a city then you are a threat to democracy or is it a threat to Democratic Party Rule ? ?

I just wish that they would come out and say it "White People are the Problem"

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...they do. All the time. What did you think "end whiteness" means?

Rural America loves Donald John Trump

PA24 said:

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Rural America loves Donald John Trump

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wow you do nothing to help the cause. I think you are a lib trying to reinforce stereotypes

ttu_85 said:

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PA24 said:

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Rural America loves Donald John Trump

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wow you do nothing to help the cause. I think you are a lib trying to reinforce stereotypes

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not afraid to post the truth, no sir!

Not afraid to say who I am and who I represent...unlike you

PA24 said:

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ttu_85 said:

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PA24 said:

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Rural America loves Donald John Trump

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wow you do nothing to help the cause. I think you are a lib trying to reinforce stereotypes

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not afraid to post the truth, no sir!

Not afraid to say who I am and who I represent...unlike you

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Great if so make an intelligent case for what you believe not some mindless embarrassing slogan.