Ratatosk,
In rural USA, (as a born and raised Appalachian) that boils down to guns, religion and tends to include a mistrust of anyone from outside the ‘community’. This isn’t surprising and its been well documented by psychologists over the years. However, apparently we damn anyone who shows that Americans behave like human beings.
You just don’t get it. People don’t mind being characterized as bible-thumping, gun-toting, “you-aint-around-from-here” yahoos. They’ve long since gotten used to that.
They viscerally object to the idea that their beliefs arise from the lack of government programs and that their beliefs are so shallow and materialistic that if the government just gave them enough money they would abandon all the ideals that Obama and other leftist find so troubling.
It’s obvious that Obama has absolutely no respect for these people on an intellectual level. He does not view them as citizen equals but rather from a crypto-marxist viewpoint as automatons programed by economic circumstance.
Nobody wants to be thought of that way.
