Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-03-2016, 05:54 AM)Galen Wrote: This is why libertarians on the whole tend not to want to impose a solution from above the way liberals and progressives do.  With the degree of centralization that exists in the US there is a tendency to use the Federal Government as a club to beat opponents over the head with.  You haven't really spent much time around the red necks in the US and the mainstream media is less than reliable.

Perhaps not the true libertarians -- there are still true libertarians outside of message boards? -- but the red rural population has its agendas.  The "Christians" don't like women's health care, and many don't approve of gun prohibition.  There is a current uptick in racial incidents reflecting the real meaning of being against political correctness.  The red population in general is ticked at the blue population, with reason, but they seem more interested in revenge than coexistence.  We'll see whether or not they use the Federal Government as a club.  Too soon to say.

While my greatest concern is the damage another round of borrow and spend trickle down could do with the economy, I don't see the culture war issues as settled, and four or eight years of one culture going after the other isn't apt to do anything but rally the victim culture to get angry at and overthrow the aggressor culture.  That the shoe is on the other foot matters little in terms of the health and stability of the country.  As long as both cultures are dumping on one another there are going to be problems.