Subject: Xlink: MSNBC/Krugman Panic Over "White Rural
Taibbi's latest is worth a read to consider why our non-urban-elite populace is angry enough to consider voting for Orange Julius, and how insane the Democratic party machine and media factory are for continuing to demonize non-believers with self-righteous antagonistic screeds like the new book "White Rural Rage".

Snips:
a vicious manifesto in the anti-populist tradition nailed by Thomas Frank in The People, No. ....
The theme is back, condescension multiplied. Despite a pandemic that just graphically demonstrated the social contributions of farmers, truckers, train operators, and other “essential workers,” the people working those jobs were demonized during the crisis as murderous horse-paste eaters and insurrectionists. Their chief crimes: protesting lockdowns and school closures that disproportionately affected them, and being consumers of supposed foreign-inspired “misinformation” that led them to refuse appropriate political choices offered them.

Nobel-winning columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times spent the last year telling “ignorant” Middle America its negative feelings about the economy are “demonstrably false,” because despite what their bank accounts or home evaluations might say, “Bidenomics is still working very well.”

To recap: globalization and technological change have devastated small towns and made the urban keyboard warriors richer, and rural voters can’t move to the cities because they can’t afford to. However, instead of being grateful for the “huge de facto transfers of money from rich, urban states like New Jersey to poor, relatively rural states like West Virginia” in the form of federal programs paid by the taxes of luckier citizens like Krugman, small town America is unaccountably hostile.

https://open.substack.com/pub/...

Can't imagine why there's such a divide in the country! /s

FC