I’ll give the author a modicum of credit, I didn’t know wood banks were a thing, so at least I learned something. But gotta lambast them everywhere else.
Rural America knows the truth long before the rest of the country feels it.
Rural America wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the ass. This is what they voted for, a silver spoon city slicker who calls functioning institutions “the deep state” before totally destroying them, to their delight.
The article is full of this coddling “woe is they” language.
Rural families don’t get to pretend. … They also know what it means when everything gets privatized except the consequences.
What a load of baloney. Rural voters have been playing pretend my entire life, to the tune of 64% support for Trump in 2024. They’ve been pretending that piss-down economics works since the 80’s. Maybe you mean they can’t afford to pretend, but they’ve been happily running a deficit on that front and won’t stop even if they freeze in the winter.
So I say let them freeze. They can beg for scrap wood and call it charity, because that’s exactly what they wanted.
They have never in my lifetime acted as friends. They have never offered so much as a kind word for anyone not in their group.
At some point, you have believe people when they show you who they are.
Yes, there is intense propaganda. Yes they are uneducated. This changes nothing of the material reality of the situation they FOUGHT FOR.
If they want to come over to my side, I would welcome them. They have to make they effort, not just whinge that their own policies are hurting them. The more they suffer from their own stupidity, the more likely they will see the light.