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2017-05-12 Home Front: Politix

Democrat Refers to Middle America as ‘Podunk, USA'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-12 07:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Like a lot of Californians, I have relatives in the Midwest. I've spent considerable time there. Yes, it is the hinterlands. But it's refreshing to go there now and see rural land, farm land, that isn't coveted by developers who can only envision massive housing tracts that will make them rich like they do in California.

And the people in the Midwest may be hicks, if that's what you want to call them. But it doesn't mean they're stupid. They are most certainly not dumb enough to get stuck in a squalid Los Angeles apartment building or get stuck in horrendous traffic jams every day attempting to get to work. The air they breath in the Midwest is not polluted and the streets are a whole heckuva lot safer.

Call 'em podunk if you want, Anna. Just don't measure your IQ against them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-12 10:49|| 2017-05-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 That picture pretty neatly sums the issue up - most Dems are elitist snobs. Fuck 'em all.

Posted by Raj 2017-05-12 10:57|| 2017-05-12 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 How utterly parochial. But about what one would expect, including the arrogant rudeness. The amusing thing is how many people have moved here from the so-"sophisticated" coasts, and would rather have all their teeth pulled than go back for longer than a visit.

But the real issue is that once the interior of the country gets broadband, they will be competing with the coast for all those telecommute jobs... and can charge less because their cost of living is significantly lower except in Chicago. Outsourcing to the middle of America is so much more heartbreaking than sending the jobs to India or the Philippines.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-12 11:05|| 2017-05-12 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 It would be amusing to watch these snobs after the "hicks" in podunkville stop producing food for them.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-12 11:24|| 2017-05-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Oikophobia has infested the internationalist (i.e. hate their own nation) democrats.
Just like it has to the Labour party here in the U.K.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-12 11:43|| 2017-05-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Outsourcing to the middle of America is so much more heartbreaking

Only because the way of life will (continue to) be diminished by the 'coasters' chasing work.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-12 12:38|| 2017-05-12 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 obozo is in the FRONT row

Posted by Andy123 2017-05-12 12:44|| 2017-05-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The amusing thing is how many people have moved here from the so-"sophisticated" coasts, and would rather have all their teeth pulled than go back for longer than a visit.

But they still bring all that socialist coastalist mindset with them, TW.

Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2017-05-12 12:44|| 2017-05-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Not all of us. I occasionally like to leave the United States, after all, and California is a choice vacation destination.

Posted by Secret Master 2017-05-12 13:53|| 2017-05-12 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 But, but, but......they can't be democrats, they have those icky guns and have dogs that work

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-05-12 14:39|| 2017-05-12 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 would rather have all their teeth pulled than go back for longer than a visit.

They'll fit right in!

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-12 17:19|| 2017-05-12 17:19|| Front Page Top

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