re: #441 HappyWarrior

If Obama ever said anything like. Pfft those voters in rural whatever. They’re not real Americans like us that live in the cities, he would have gotten crucified. Meanwhile, Republican candidates routinely insist that people who live in cities are immoral and don’t have “values.” It’s a crock of shit done to give rural America a sense of superiority it doesn’t deserve. We’re all Americans from the most rural and isolated town to the densest part of NYC or LA.

He got crucified enough for saying this about rural folks:

“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”