I think it is not helpful to create a black and white dichotomy between rural and urban people. I live in both places and it is not true that rural people do not travel and are not curious. We need to look to the way policies of both parties have disenfranchised large swaths of our population, who are angry and who do not believe that ma…
I think it is not helpful to create a black and white dichotomy between rural and urban people. I live in both places and it is not true that rural people do not travel and are not curious. We need to look to the way policies of both parties have disenfranchised large swaths of our population, who are angry and who do not believe that mainstream politics has any interest in making their lives better. If we fail to consider the reality of this, we will see more extremism and not just from rural areas.
I think it is not helpful to create a black and white dichotomy between rural and urban people. I live in both places and it is not true that rural people do not travel and are not curious. We need to look to the way policies of both parties have disenfranchised large swaths of our population, who are angry and who do not believe that mainstream politics has any interest in making their lives better. If we fail to consider the reality of this, we will see more extremism and not just from rural areas.