Democrats win one single election and it’s right back to the old knowledge economy horseshit.
The reason rural America is fucked is simple. Policy. For instance you can’t get there by plane or train anymore. washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novde…
Monopolization has wrecked rural societies, taken their youth, and poisoned their people with drugs. Oh and closed a lot of their hospitals. This isn’t hard to understand.
White rural Americans are constantly spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories oh wait that was Mark Zuckerberg in Palo Alto the Boy King of the Knowledge Fucking Economy.
Also the whole knowledge economy frame of rich cities overlooks the fact that these cities are insanely unequal. That’s what happens when you pool capital in the hands of monopolists. Super high rent!
The bluest areas aren’t just the richest areas they are also the most economically unequal.
There’s a huge shared agenda among people in blue cities and rural areas. It’s just one based on attacking corporate power not siding with it.
