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In reply to the discussion: Rural living. [View all]tom_kelly
(1,028 posts)I remember the line from Trump "What have you got to lose?" As much as I loathe this POS, that was a tremendous statement that hit nerve in rural America. On the other hand there was Chuck Schumer who said something like "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin. Those rural, blue collar folks don't need fancy education to see the difference in attitudes here. They were faced with two parties who haven't done much of anything for them in recent times and an "outsider", in their eyes, made a lot of sense with that question. You and I know that they have a lot to lose, but, they're frustrated. What they do know is that they have been lied to by "politicians" at campaign-time their entire rural lives.