Trump takes the GOP hate for cities to a new extreme

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The rural-urban divide is one of the defining features of the American electorate: Democrats dominate in cities, while Republicans rule in rural areas. But as the presidential race has shown, the two parties are treating the voters in their opponents’ favored territory in very different ways.

Democrats are working to attract rural voters and promoting policy initiatives to improve life for rural Americans. Republicans are heaping contempt and calumny on cities and treating their residents as deluded.

Conservatives have long disdained urban areas and those who live in them. But as Election Day approaches, Donald Trump and JD Vance are deploying a particularly nasty anti-urban strategy, seemingly driven by the belief that if Americans who don’t live in cities — or ever go there — look upon them with disgust and fear, then they’ll vote Republican.

In rural Pennsylvania last week, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, unveiled a policy plan to address some of the challenges faced by rural Americans. It includes an effort to hire 10,000 desperately needed health care professionals to work in rural areas. The day before, Vance traveled to Minneapolis, but not to offer the Trump-Vance plan for urban America. Instead, Vance insulted and demeaned the city, falsely claiming that Walz let it “burn to the ground” in 2020 during protests against police violence and that the city “has now become overrun with crime.” Vance warned that “the story of Minneapolis is coming to every community across the United States of America if we promote Kamala Harris to president of the United States.” Never mind that Minneapolis was named the happiest city in America this year, just one of its absurdly long list of accolades.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-takes-the-gop-hate-for-cities-to-a-new-extreme/ar-AA1sAm5J?ocid=nl_article_link

[Dave Bowman]

1. Haters gonna hate. It seems like the only emotion they can feel.

Reminds me of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[maxsolomon]

2. Over 80 percent of America lives in Cities

Including the fuckers at Fox News (Manhattan), the Repuke fuckers in Congress, fucking Trump, fucking Vance, etc.

Often, suburbanites within those urban areas are afraid of the big city, but they still go there, for Sportsball at least.

[Aristus]

3. I live near, and work in, Tacoma, Washington.

To hear a right-winger talk about my beloved Two-Five-Three, you'd think the only things that exist in Tacoma are gangs and homeless people. Gangs were a serious problem in the 1980's, forty years ago; and the homeless situation in Tacoma is improving all the time, not the least of which reasons is the boom in the construction of low-income and subsidized housing units.

Right-wingers will never talk about Tacoma in terms of its colorful ethnic diversity, and the incredible food and cultural activities associated with it, or our vibrant arts community; opera, theater, symphonic music, dance, painting, etc. They will never talk about the determination of a people hit hard by de-industrialization to build a new community here. We cleaned up an old toxic waste site, and turned it into a civic showpiece of dining, boating, and recreation. Our hard-working people keep the busy and indispensable Port of Tacoma going, bringing in imported goods that will be shipped and trucked all over the nation.

Right-wingers don't want to hear that. They just keep blithering half-wittedly about how the ass-scratchers in East Cornpone are the 'real' Americans.