girlgerms
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Reporting from Rural America here:
As a lifelong resident of a red state situated in the bible belt I can tell you;.there has been a definite shift in the general attitude/ behavior of people out here since this whole thing started.
Out here, it was always just the elderly white farmers who would get wound up and start spouting off at the mouth about politics....when they were drunk :/ If you were a left-leaning moderate ( like myself) then at worst; they would call you a "hippie" tell you to go "hug a tree" etc. But now ( and I saw it coming when my Sanders banner was vandalized) it is like this whole process has really allowed them to express how they really feel. And all of a sudden it is okay to verbalize this crap. And I am totally sick just listening to them even in a place as simple as the grocery market.
Let me tell you, and I exaggerate not.
Tonight I was waiting in line at the market and a girl maybe 16 years old ( ive never seen her around before) was at the front of the line buying a few things. Paid with plastic and left. Then the cashier told everyone standing around that she had paid with food stamps and the 4-5 people there were pissed. Saying this young girlfriend was "a piece of shit" " welfare trash" She should be "run out of town" etc. Mind you, this was a white female. When they start ranting on other races or (a favoritr target) homosexuals, you would have to see and hear it to believe it.
Im glad she was gone before they started. I wanted to say something to them but I had to throw up and anyway, I know better. I have 2 kids to consider and I live here. I didnt let them see me cry, I just put the couple things I had back and left.
People never use to act like this out here. And they Love Love Love.the new -president elect. They cant wait for him to clean up this country. And build the wall. They are sick of how the democrats have ran this country into the gutter. And they are not taking it anymore.
And they are insane. Hateful. And wrong.
Im plotting a permanent escape. I dont want my kids around this crap.
I need to be around some like-minded, rational, kind human beings. Before I loose my mind.
As a lifelong resident of a red state situated in the bible belt I can tell you;.there has been a definite shift in the general attitude/ behavior of people out here since this whole thing started.
Out here, it was always just the elderly white farmers who would get wound up and start spouting off at the mouth about politics....when they were drunk :/ If you were a left-leaning moderate ( like myself) then at worst; they would call you a "hippie" tell you to go "hug a tree" etc. But now ( and I saw it coming when my Sanders banner was vandalized) it is like this whole process has really allowed them to express how they really feel. And all of a sudden it is okay to verbalize this crap. And I am totally sick just listening to them even in a place as simple as the grocery market.
Let me tell you, and I exaggerate not.

Im glad she was gone before they started. I wanted to say something to them but I had to throw up and anyway, I know better. I have 2 kids to consider and I live here. I didnt let them see me cry, I just put the couple things I had back and left.
People never use to act like this out here. And they Love Love Love.the new -president elect. They cant wait for him to clean up this country. And build the wall. They are sick of how the democrats have ran this country into the gutter. And they are not taking it anymore.
And they are insane. Hateful. And wrong.
Im plotting a permanent escape. I dont want my kids around this crap.
I need to be around some like-minded, rational, kind human beings. Before I loose my mind.