Why Liberal Elites are so Disdainful of Middle America

[Arjuna]

On Monday Ned Resinkoff, a senior editor for the progressive ThinkProgress, wrote in detail about how rattled he was that his plumber, “a middle-aged white guy with a southern accent,” may have voted for Donald Trump.

The idea that his plumber may have different political beliefs left Resnikoff so rattled he “couldn’t shake the sense of potential danger.”

Two days earlier Melinda Byerley, founder of a Silicon Valley-based tech startup that does “free-range, artisanal, organic, customized marketing” with “Birkenstocks-on-the-ground expertise,” tweeted her expert opinion on Middle America’s jobs-`attraction problem.

It wasn’t very nice.

First she said Middle America needs to realize “no educated person wants to live in a s- -t-hole with stupid people,” which is why she said more big corporations don’t move to the Heartland: “Those towns have nothing going for them,” with “no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”



Educated people such as herself wouldn’t live in rural areas because they won’t sacrifice their superior tolerance and diversity to do so. Nor do her highly educated friends want to live in states where the majority of residents “don’t want brown people to thrive.”

The left-liberal pundit class loves to hear stories of rural Americans who moved to the big city and look in their rearview mirrors with shame and trepidation, like their small-town upbringing is a skeleton in their closet. What they can’t abide is average Americans’ pride.
Why liberal elites are so resentful of middle America | New York Post

 

[Catskillkid]

I have a Master's Degree. I think most would consider me "educated" in the traditional sense and while it can be difficult at times for various reasons, I love living in a rural, backwoods, hick and redneck filled area and wouldn't want it any other way. Personally, for me (and I speak only for myself here) having an advanced education in my particular field makes me one of the dumbest mother f-ers on the planet compared to most of the hard working blue collar folks, but I digress. Frankly, the liberal, mostly coastal, elites like to be...well...elite and exclusive. It's basically modern day feudalism. Except instead of Dukes and Barons ruling down on us serfs it's those who live in Upper East Side Brownstones and D.C. Row-houses and who have Sunday brunches at the Harvard and Yale Club then shuffle off to the Yacht club for the weekend regatta. They want to be separated from EVERYONE who they consider their lesser, and frankly that includes most brown and black people too, if they're being honest with themselves. Even in Europe which is just so welcoming to all those refugees guess where they are placed? Certainly not in the upper class neighborhoods. Nope, they're put in the working class neighborhoods with the rest of the peons. The Liberal elites just like talking a big game to feel superior. I guess it's a psychological crutch to make them feel better since they by and large don't produce anything of substance.

And as far as rural racism is concerned, does it exist in certainly places, sure it probably does. But I'd rather live next door and hang out with a black guy who holds similar values to me than at the Country Club with some snob who spews on about social justice when the only contact she has with a real minority is their server, driver or the photo op at the soup kitchen fund raiser.

 

[Phauxtoe]

they believe their sterile education and upbringing make them know better than the common people, and they just want to Help!

F-ing idiots!

 

[ProgSpear]

...is the result of 100 years of progressive (statist run) public education.

 

[EMSBronco]

I moved out of NYC to rural America and I don't want to look back. Between the overcrowding, crime, high cost of living, and constant increasing government control (red light cameras, speed cameras, facial recognition, etc), I would never move back. And, I have a BS in a hard science and have a decent paying job. Many people in my town are also well educated - we just prefer to live in an area where we can actually see the night sky, don't choke on smog, and don't sit in traffic for 45 minutes to go 3 miles.

And, I will second Catskillid's comments about not caring about anybody's skin color as long as they have the same ideals. Yes, there is some racism out there, mostly older folk, but I'm sure there is still some latent racism in the cities as well, just more hidden.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Well At the first available opportunity my wife and myself will be taking our educations and tax paying along with our family and will be moving rural away from NY and other liberal strongholds.. We won't be looking back.

I've never ONCE been in NYC and that's something I'm proud of.

Funny story, after basic training my room mate was from alabama, he told me I was the first Yankee he met that he liked. Lol

There is a huge and growing idealistic divide in this country and I don't want any part of the progressive social justice warrior utopia in the big metropolitan areas.

 

[Blimey]

I'm educated. My wife more so. I wish we were more rural. The further away from people the better. I wouldn't fit in with city life anymore.

 

[Koz]

I consider myself to be highly educated and started my own business 27 years ago, but I still refer to myself as a redneck.

 

[4excal]

I'm not 6 year college edugeumacated but I sure as hell prefer the "uneducated/educated rural folk" that can fix anything, use what they have on hand to do so and are genuine and honest when you speak with them. FUCK snobs and elites!!!!!!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

The irony is the very people they disdain are responsible for growing and producing their food they need to survive

.....and they have 99% of privately owned guns.

 

[prambo]

Went into USAF in '70 with 22 hours towards a Master's degree. Couldn't even change the points in my car without screwing it up - my Brother corrected my mistake over the phone.

After 4 years in the service I could repair jet engines, and do almost every task to repair almost anything.

After the service I lucked out and got into a PhD program. It was tough $$$$ wise even with the GI bill. Made ends meet, and then some, by humping wrenches in the garage my Brother worked.

Yes, my science career gave me many advantages, including 10 years in East Africa.

But what learning means the most to me personally, and financially, now that I am retired? It's the work I do that cuts my knuckles, makes my hands like claws in winter from arthritis, tears my rotator cuff, etc. Work that requires thought, muscles, perservance, and knowledge.

My views on right and wrong, politics and freedom were formed by my parents and the bedrock people of this country who work with their hands and minds who I met in the service and in garage bays. Not from sniffling libtard whiners who thought their education made them better than the guy who fixed their car or replaced their broken plumbing.

The liberal whiners are societally fucking worthless - when the SHTF, they'll die like flies. And I hope I live long enough to see that happen.

 

[tirwin1]

It's hard for me to contain the contempt I have for the author of the article and his like minded fellow travelers. I am certain they feel educated and superior to the average individual. Yet by his own words he shows how narrow minded and bigoted he is. But he considers himself a "progressive." I truly despise these people. This isn't a "misunderstanding" or "clash of cultures." That asshole wants me and the people that think like I do pushed to the margins of society or (more probably) dead. Right back at you asshole. If a SHTF scenario actually comes about, you and I will be on opposite sides.