{"id":1484645,"date":"2024-08-19T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1484645"},"modified":"2024-08-19T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:25:00","slug":"for-a-democrat-the-american-heartlands-normalcy-is-a-terrifying-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/for-a-democrat-the-american-heartlands-normalcy-is-a-terrifying-dystopia\/1484645\/","title":{"rendered":"For A Democrat, The American Heartland’s Normalcy Is A Terrifying Dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

For A Democrat, The American Heartland’s Normalcy Is A Terrifying Dystopia<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Civil War tore America apart and left 600,000 dead. Still, despite its ferocity, it had at its heart only one big issue: whether the Constitution\u2019s promise of individual liberty overrode states\u2019 rights to govern themselves. <\/strong>Otherwise, Americans were much the same: the Bible, hard work, heterosexuality, the nuclear family, anti-crime, etc.<\/p>\n

America today actually faces a more profound schism than it did then because we\u2019ve become two entirely different people.<\/p>\n

An opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle really hammers the point home, as a regular columnist looks at a county fair in the Heartland and sees a dystopian world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soleil Ho<\/a>\u00a0identifies herself a plural being who should be referred to as \u201cthey\u201d and \u201cthem.\u201d She is \u201can opinion columnist and cultural critic, focusing on gender, race, food policy and life in San Francisco.\u201d She\u2019s even\u00a0made it to Joy Reid\u2019s show<\/a>\u00a0for exposing the horror of parents who are opposed to the push to destroy their children\u2019s biological reality with the lunacy of \u201ctransgenderism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image by AI.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ho recently took a trip to visit relatives in the American heartland (perhaps rural Illinois) and professed herself to be absolutely horrified by what she found there. The headline of Ho\u2019s San Francisco Chronicle essay (and I don\u2019t know whether Ho or the Chron came up with this headline) is \u201cI took a trip to Trump country. It was more bleak than I could have imagined.<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I opened the essay assuming that I\u2019d read about the economic despair that decades of Democrat policies have visited on rural America: Shuttered factories and stores, homelessness, drug addiction, foreclosed homes, crime-ridden communities, illegal aliens sucking up public funds, etc.<\/p>\n

Instead, Ho described a bucolic county fair, complete with \u201crides, the charcoal-kissed meat skewers and the stall that churns out fried cheese curds, those little molten pebbles enrobed in crisp chambers of light-as-air batter,\u201d along with happy people collecting \u201cplenty of award ribbons for photography, cookies, crafts and giant garden-grown vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for Ho, none of this mattered. Attending the fair with Democrat relatives trapped in a Heartland hellhole, the real evil lurked beneath this Arcadian surface. These happy people celebrating their lives and eating wonderful fair food are evil. Truly evil. Why? Because they support Trump:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with corny fair merch and anime ponchos, every, and I mean every T-shirt stall was draped with Trump flags: \u201cI\u2019m voting for the felon,\u201d \u201cF\u2014 Biden\u201d and the relatively anodyne, \u201cI\u2019m With Trump.\u201d While browsing the pet supply shop across from the local Republican Party\u2019s stall, I saw GOP staff greeted with cheers and raised fists \u2014 echoing Donald Trump\u2019s triumphant pose after the assassination attempt on him \u2014 by numerous fairgoers wearing red caps and \u201cUltra MAGA\u201d shirts. \u201cBoo, Kambala!\u201d yelled a woman, laughing.<\/em><\/p>\n

In packed queues for roasted corn, I squeezed past parents balancing their children\u2019s plastic lemonade cups in their arms with \u201cTrump\/Vance 2024\u201d lawn signs tucked under their armpits. \u201cNice sign!\u201d one blonde, elementary school-age girl shouted above the din, with her thumbs up at a woman holding one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ho was also confronted with the terrible specter of men in floral Hawaiian shirts. <\/strong><\/p>\n

You and I, staunch conservatives, may just think, \u201cOoh, I like Hawaiian shirts\u201d or \u201cOh, that\u2019s kind of tacky,\u201d but the alert woke person knows better.<\/p>\n

Ho hears the dog whistle of the \u201cboogaloo\u201d movement, a seriously fringe and ineffective group that no conservatives care about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I suspect that while a scattering of Hawaiian shirts horrifies Ho, she\u2019s copacetic about hundreds of masked Antifa members attacking people, fire-bombing federal buildings, and otherwise engaging in violent mayhem.<\/p>\n

To Ho, the county fair represents everything evil in America:<\/p>\n

My family, mostly Democrats or otherwise apolitical, are pragmatic about politics: This is their home. They quietly listen to the daily political rants and ravings about crime, immigrants and \u201ctranses\u201d from MAGA colleagues, neighbors and friends, hoping for any opportunity to pivot to the weather.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s the divide. The evil Americans think that crime should be punished, immigrants should arrive legally, and that embracing the mental illness of body dysphoria should be discouraged, not encouraged. <\/strong>Ho also boasts that, in the Utopia of San Francisco, she need not fear wearing a \u201cNotorious RBG\u201d shirt, forgetting that conservatives in that Utopia risk physical assault, vandalism, and job loss for daring to voice their political opinions. By contrast, Ho could have worn her \u201cNotorious RBG\u201d shirt to that fair without worry. Republicans believe in free speech.<\/p>\n

For Ho, her nightmare in the dystopia of the heartland culminated with the crowd at the rodeo singing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d The horror was too much for her. \u201cI\u2019d had enough. I stayed seated, head in my hands, and waited for the bulls to come charging out of their pens.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took America four years and 600,000 lives to resolve the one question of individual liberty versus state\u2019s rights, a battle that conveniently divided itself along geographic lines. How is our country ever to resolve the fact that we have living cheek by jowl two entirely different cultures, each with values antithetical to the other, all vying for the same political control?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 08\/19\/2024 – 18:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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