keep telling middle america how wrong they all are. When they rise up against you at the ballot box, keep telling them how wrong they all are. It'll work eventually!
That's been such a winning plan for middle America, hasn't it? They rise up, only to vote for the politician, usually Republican, who panders to them most. That same politician who will then proceed to do absolutely nothing to help them, and often vote for policies that hurt them.
So we can either ignore middle America and let them continue this self-destructive cycle, or can point it out. Which will then make them mad and they'll continue voting in the useless pricks who do nothing to help them.
I know you tried to make your statement sound like a threat. But I live in the rural Midwest. I've seen the politicians voted in at the local level. Politicians like Brownback who have trashed the state. It's cutting your nose off to spite your face, as Mom used to say.
In addition, just like Brexit, I see a lot of people who appear to have completely ignored the concrete results of their actions.
For example, me to Trump voter: "You do realize that you voted to throw your own daughter and my mother off of healthcare? Your daughter couldn't get coverage before Obamacare because she has mild sleep apnea while being middle-aged. My mother couldn't get healthcare before the ACA because she is a breast cancer survivor." Trump voter: "Well, I didn't really want that."
What am I supposed to say at that point?
Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than your own daughter receiving healthcare?
Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than my mother receiving healthcare?
Really, I want to know this.
And, when you give me your answer about god, guns, gays, mexicans, emails, Benghazi or any other stupid thing that doesn't impact our lives one iota other than to serve as a propaganda vehicle, don't be surprised when I tell you how FUCKING WRONG you are.
There was a category of people [not me, fwiw] for which abortion was the singular issue that made them vote for what they considered a deeply flawed candidate. Everything else paled in comparison.
From the pro-life point of view, it also affects the unborn child who is murdered. For many of them, abortion is literally the same thing as letting people kill their toddlers because they decided that they don't want them for whatever reason. This is the divide.
(I realize that there are other pregnancy complications that don't literally equate to having an inconvenient toddler, and pro-lifers aren't as consistent on how they view those cases, but those are a small minority of abortions.)
It goes both ways. Keep telling minorities and the educated that they're not "real" America and we'll just trade whose most angry this election. The hard part is understanding the other perspective and building bridges.
I can buy into that sentiment, but for one glaring issue: the significant number of incumbents at the House and Senate levels that were re-elected.
If Americans want change, let's start at the levels that ultimately has a larger impact on our day-to-day experiences. Change the course of the failed domestic policy that comes from our govenors, state representatives, and those sent to Congress by bringing in new ideas.
Why is the Executive the only branch of government that is scrutinized to the degree that it is?
Where are the Congressional aspirants' debates that let voters draw their own conclusions after listening to the words that come out of candidates mouths, not just those from the latest attacking radio or TV spot?
You didn't read the article. The author is from middle america and explaining to those who are not from there how wrong we are in our interpretation of what has happened. Read it, please, it's quite informative.
Again - the author is from Middle America; there is no 'they', it's 'we'. And here's just part of what is said:
"To pin this election on the coastal elite is a cop-out. It’s intellectually dishonest, and it’s beneath us.
We, as a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans. Their experience is not more of a real American experience than anyone else’s, but when we say that it is, we give people a pass from seeing and understanding more of their country. More Americans need to see more of the United States. They need to shake hands with a Muslim, or talk soccer with a middle aged lesbian, or attend a lecture by a female business executive.
We must start asking all Americans to be their better selves. We must all understand that America is a melting pot and that none of us has a more authentic American experience."
All the votes of 2016 election aren't counted yet, so Trump's votes will come up as more than Romney got 2012. Absentee ballots, provisional ballots and early votes are counted later.
Also, the turnout in 2016 election is 2 % higher than 2012 (56.9 % vs. 54.9 %).
It will work eventually. The demographic trends are undeniable. It will take longer because rural areas have, proportionally, a much greater political influence than urban areas, but the white non-Hispanic percentage of the population is going down every year.
So we can either ignore middle America and let them continue this self-destructive cycle, or can point it out. Which will then make them mad and they'll continue voting in the useless pricks who do nothing to help them.
I know you tried to make your statement sound like a threat. But I live in the rural Midwest. I've seen the politicians voted in at the local level. Politicians like Brownback who have trashed the state. It's cutting your nose off to spite your face, as Mom used to say.