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It's a bizarre thing, this and the polarized US, as someone who's lived back and forth between the Midwest and California for decades. Both perspectives have ge

• dorchadas 8y ago
  And neither of them are likely to look at long term consequences. Well, one side is, but they often don't factor the other group into their long term consequence outlook, whereas I'm convinced the one side doesn't think of anything long-term. I'm a solidly progressive person teaching in solidly Trump country (like, my state was basically called before the election was even over), and that's just been my experience. But, I went to school in a very progressive school, and it was the same -- they never considered rural or Blue Collar America in their long-term consequence planning, apart from "oh, we can give them this to support them, etc." Wasn't much discussion on how it would affect them individually and, even if they were able to live comfortably, how it would affect them culturally (having a job and providing for your family is what makes you a man, etc)
  • coldtea 8y ago
    >they never considered rural or Blue Collar America in their long-term consequence planning Yes, from all I've read and seen it's a case of "millions out of jobs, devastated? tough luck, they need to embrace change, the future's is for those that adapt, etc..." -- all the while those saying it benefit from the current economy and so have no experience whatsoever with "adapting" themselves (and if they were on the other end would be crying like little babies).