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Read that much of the tendency toward fascism in the central part of the US is due to the fact that they are
being neglected by the government.
What are they not getting? The ridiculous real estate prices? The impossible traffic?


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Where did you read that?

I thought they felt bad because they believed the “coastal elites” were always making fun of them. Wah! VeryAngry


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Where did you read that?

I thought they felt bad because they believed the “coastal elites” were always picking on them. Wah! VeryAngry


Have read that here and there, sometimes in columns telling the Democrats what they should be doing.

Yes, they do feel picked on. Maybe they caught that from the "Spare".


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They don't need to be neglected, they just need to be told they are being neglected.

"You are getting the shaft. It's not your fault. It's some other's* fault. I alone can fix it."

Sound familiar?


* People who don't look like you or came from another country or don't go to your church or who have some other distinguishing characteristic that you can hate.


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They don't need to be neglected, they just need to be told they are being neglected.

"You are getting the shaft. It's not your fault. It's some other's* fault. I alone can fix it."

Sound familiar?


* People who don't look like you or came from another country or don't go to your church or who have some other distinguishing characteristic that you can hate.


Ah yes, that has been very effective. What else?


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If by the "middle of the country" you mean the Midwest, I think their beef is the loss of well-paying union jobs in manufacturing.

If by flyover you mean in the intermountain West, their gripe is that the rest of the country doesn't share their values. Their societies were formed by rugged individualists who did it all on their own and think everyone else should, too. They have zero understanding of how most of our population lives. T.S. I say.

If by flyover country you mean the inland South, well, again, it's a values problem--they don't like civil rights and immigration because they are racists.


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Well, I’m in flyover country and have yet to receive either my pony or my go cart.

I blame Biden.


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