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I'm usually on board with Cassie's takes (she's a solid organizer from what I can tell), but in this case I gotta say its a bit elitist.
I hate to say it but I kind of agree with her, as someone who has family in Appalachia. There's a bit of fetishization of the rural working class (especially Appalachia due to the history of miners unions) on the left but I don't really think we can compare the material conditions of these people to that of Russian or Chinese peasantry. For one most of these people at least own the land they're living on, they may be poor otherwise but that gives them a degree of autonomy and dignity tenant farmers lack.
But regardless there still irony in a bunch of anti-ML libertarian socialists suddenly calling the rural poor "backwards" cuz they voted for a cheeto.
I agree to an extent that it is foolish, or maybe naive to think that the rural working class will easily ally with the left because of guns or whatever, but its at least as ridiculous as leaning the other way with the "country bumpkin" schtick. Its twitter though, where nuance goes to die. Shitposters shitting on shitposters shitting on shitposters
I’d still argue that “Berniecrat + gunz” is more likely to be a winning platform in some areas of flyover country than something like
You also need Bernie, who is a likable white dude to a lot of people
Yeah that’s one of the core problems with the Democrats from a pure campaign horse race perspective. They refuse to buil up the local and state parties outside of the coastal enclaves and they have a centralized, focus grouped control of everything. So instead of local characters people will like, they run the most soulless, out of central casting robots.