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Anti-Trump MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks rural Americans are 'core threat' to democracy

MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that rural Americans are “the core threat to our democracy” and pointed to a series of tweets by liberal author Jared Yates Sexton that claimed Trump supporters “do not believe in the Constitution or any founding principles unless they're advantageous” as proof of her far-left theory.



“By 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them,” MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin tweeted over the weekend.
Reid, who tweets so often that it’s amazing she finds time to do anything else, has a feed that is essentially the anti-Trump talking points of the far left on a daily basis. While Sexton never specifically mentioned the “rural minority” in his rant, the MSNBC host took it upon herself to quote Griffin’s tweet add her own commentary tied to Sexton's thread.

“This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority,” Reid tweeted.
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Joy Reid of MSNBC Thinks Rural Americans Are a "Core Threat" - TheResurgent.com
Joy Reid of MSNBC Thinks Rural Americans Are a "Core Threat"
For the last several years, Democrats have been complaining about the constitution. While they lament Donald Trump's supposed disregard for the constitutional processes in the United States, they have been trying to delegitimize the fifty states as semi-sovereign powers in our federal system. Democrats do not like that states are not just administrative subdivisions of Washington and they hate that the Senate has legitimacy.

In fact, Joy Reid of MSNBC is on social media calling rural Americans a "core threat" to our democracy.


Both Kyle Griffin's original tweet and Reid's response highlight a core threat to our constitutional system: basic ignorance. The several states formed the national government, ceding certain powers outlined in section eight of the first article of the constitution. They kept the rest of the powers for themselves. This is and has always been our basic constitutional system. We are a republic with representative democracy components in its operation.

Tragically, in a fit of progressivism in the early part of the 20th century, the constitution was amendment to allow for the direct election of Senators instead of by appointment through state legislative processes. This allowed the federal government to become even more important. The ultimate solution for campaign finance reform is actually repeal of that seventeenth amendment and force the left and right to fight at the state level.


Notwithstanding that, to have a national "news" host call rural America a "core threat" to our democracy is both striking arrogance and striking ignorance. Also, like with gun rights, it would require a dramatic constitutional overhaul.
 
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livingston said:
“By 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them,” MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin tweeted over the weekend.
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That's precisely why the founders set up the Senate the way they did. So the agricultural and low population states wouldn't get ruled over by the densely populated cities/states. The design is working as intended.
 
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Maybe it's a threat to his so called democracy, but for those who don't live in the big cities, it's preservation of our "Republic" that we actually live in!

See, these kool-aid drinking fools think that when 50.00001% of the people say it is so, that it should be, even at the expense of others! Isn't it great to see their heads spinning?

Quote "This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority,” Reid tweeted.

Guess this idiot doesn't understand that the framers understood this even then and designed our system so the very basis of the complaint would not occur, that those minority representation outside of populated areas not be push aside and ignored. Guess the entitled everyone wins a prize generation is upset that now matter how many illegals they get to vote, they still only represent a small percentage of our population. lol...
 
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NirvanaFan said:
That's precisely why the founders set up the Senate the way they did. So the agricultural and low population states wouldn't get ruled over by the densely populated cities/states. The design is working as intended.
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Countrywide yes, but certainly not Statewide ( although I do realize we are speaking about the US Constitution, not the New York state constitution). We are f***** in New York state with the city ruling the rural portion of the state.
 
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I have zero Liberal friends, stories like this are the reason why. I despise them, all of them. I have never met a Liberal that I enjoyed being around.

I have had conversations with many of them over the years; each time I talk to one of them, I feel less. Just less.

They have zero concept of true America. They hate our rule of law, our way of life and our Constitution. They make me sick!
 
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GOPerfect said:
I have zero Liberal friends, stories like this are the reason why. I despise them, all of them. I have never met a Liberal that I enjoyed being around.

I have had conversations with many of them over the years; each time I talk to one of them, I feel less. Just less.

They have zero concept of true America. They hate our rule of law, our way of life and our Constitution. They make me sick!
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I couldn't agree more, I cannot associate with people that are that out of touch with reality.

I can be cordial to anyone, but I choose not to surround myself with people of that mindset.
 
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These are the same people that desperately want to disarm us.
The leftists metaphorically already have the ovens fired up.

They say that the Republicans are domestic terrorists and rural Americans are a threat to democracy.
But at the same time they support antifa... FACEPALM,,, they are a bunch of delusional fuckers aren't they...
 
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livingston said:
“By 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them,” MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin tweeted over the weekend.
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So? As designed, those 70% would still have a majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate was never intended to be a representation of population. It was supposed to represent the heretofore independent states in the federal government. The Progressives championed the 17th amendment that saddled us with popular election of senators. Thus, the states were removed from having any representation in the federal government.
 
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Don't know what drug that person is on but rural America is the HEART of Democracy and staunch supporters of law, order and the Constitution while most urban dwellers don't even realize there is a constitution.
 
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Remember when the election happened and everyone in the rural areas decided to burn down their own...forests?
 
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