I agree to an extent that it is foolish, or maybe naive to think that the rural working class will easily ally with the left because of guns or whatever, but its at least as ridiculous as leaning the other way with the “country bumpkin” schtick. Its twitter though, where nuance goes to die. Shitposters shitting on shitposters shitting on shitposters
Until it becomes an acute class struggle instead of a passive culture war I don’t see the rural working class siding with socialism. It will take a few very bad years, as Engels said
Most rural poor in the US aren’t farmers though. For them a lot of the value of rural living comes from the lifestyle, they like having a piece of property to drive ATVs and shoot beer cans on.
And mind you I’m not saying that in a judgmental way, I loved that shit back when I’d visit my family in western VA. But I think it does feed into the culture war, they see liberals calling for bigger and denser cities as an attack on their lifestyle.
Yeah that’s one of the core problems with the Democrats from a pure campaign horse race perspective. They refuse to buil up the local and state parties outside of the coastal enclaves and they have a centralized, focus grouped control of everything. So instead of local characters people will like, they run the most soulless, out of central casting robots.
I agree to an extent that it is foolish, or maybe naive to think that the rural working class will easily ally with the left because of guns or whatever, but its at least as ridiculous as leaning the other way with the “country bumpkin” schtick. Its twitter though, where nuance goes to die. Shitposters shitting on shitposters shitting on shitposters
Until it becomes an acute class struggle instead of a passive culture war I don’t see the rural working class siding with socialism. It will take a few very bad years, as Engels said
Can’t argue that, for sure
Most rural poor in the US aren’t farmers though. For them a lot of the value of rural living comes from the lifestyle, they like having a piece of property to drive ATVs and shoot beer cans on.
And mind you I’m not saying that in a judgmental way, I loved that shit back when I’d visit my family in western VA. But I think it does feed into the culture war, they see liberals calling for bigger and denser cities as an attack on their lifestyle.
Yeah, that’s part of what I meant by nuance being outright impossible on twitter.
I’d still argue that “Berniecrat + gunz” is more likely to be a winning platform in some areas of flyover country than something like
You also need Bernie, who is a likable white dude to a lot of people
Yeah that’s one of the core problems with the Democrats from a pure campaign horse race perspective. They refuse to buil up the local and state parties outside of the coastal enclaves and they have a centralized, focus grouped control of everything. So instead of local characters people will like, they run the most soulless, out of central casting robots.