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Home Front: Culture Wars

MSNBC's Joy Reid: '~~White~~ Rural Americans Are a ‘Core Threat to Our Democracy'

2017-11-28

[Free Beacon] MSNBC host Joy Reid on Saturday said rural Americans pose a "core threat to our democracy" because 70 percent of the population is expected to live in the 15 largest states in 2040.

Her comment came in response to a column in the Wall Street Journal in which author Gerald Seib discussed American government and various global threats confronting democracy. Seib used projected population change to argue that many urban Americans will be underrepresented in the Senate in the coming decades.

"Because of the way the Electoral College works, two of the past three presidents first won office while losing the popular vote. And David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them," Seib wrote.

Reid quoted MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin's tweet, which cited the figures from the Wall Street Journal, and said the rural minority's level of representation constitutes are a "core threat to our democracy." She said rural Americans will continue to "have disproportionate power over the urban majority."

Colin Kaepernick be damned and an enthusiastic hat tip to Ms. Reid. She clearly and unmistakenly validates the existence of the 'Culture War.'

Posted by:Besoeker

#20 Probably thinks farms should be nationalized. And farmers should be employees of the government. So government can control them - and also the food supply. If it's not about money, it's abot control.

Posted by: Glenmore 2017-11-28 17:54

#19 Back at you Joy. We feel much the same way about you.

Posted by: Jack Hapsburg9466 2017-11-28 17:21

#18 Democrats know nothing about America and could not care less. They are all now cultural marxists that pine to make it like the euroblob.

I wish they would all just move there and leave US be.

Posted by: newc 2017-11-28 16:04

#17 A likely affectation, AA.

Posted by: Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762 2017-11-28 15:50

#16 Being an imbecile Joy-Joy kept referring to the Senate instead of the HoR in her remarks. Population effects HoR whereas number of states effects Senate. She's a dummy!

(effects or affects, I can't keep it straight)

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-11-28 15:11

#15 Given her probable definition of "democracy", I sure hope there's a credible threat to it.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-28 13:45

#14 Soviet urban elites felt the same way about the kulaks.

I can guess where Reid and her ilk want to take this.

Posted by: charger 2017-11-28 13:12

#13 Univ. of Toronto Psychology Professor Jordan B. Peterson tweets "Those who have accomplished something as individuals have no need to be proud of their race." (not in reference to this story but as a general comment).

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-28 12:13

#12 First, it is a Republic because nobody wanted to be ruled by Pennsylvania.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-11-28 12:13

#11 Perhaps we have stumbled upon one good reason to keep Planned Parenthood going.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-28 11:34

#10 There are times words fail.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-28 10:47

#9 That's all old stuff that old white guys wrote. Like over a hundred years ago. Joy's progressed beyond that.

Posted by: Frank G 2017-11-28 10:21

#8 Reid appears to be missing a few of the facts:

Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian observations are scattered throughout his letters and other documents. “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . .” he declaims in Query XIX of Notes on the State of Virginia (1781–82). “Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.” Jefferson and the other Anti-Federalists believed that yeoman farming nurtured a spirit of self- reliance that made economic—and therefore genuine political—independence possible. In that fact lay farming’s principle value.

Link

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-28 09:57

#7 because 70 percent of the population is expected to live in the 15 largest states in 2040.

I expect considerable herd thinning well before then.

Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-28 09:53

#6 Yeah, piss them off so bad they decide not to feed, water and power your city. You'll be selling your own daughter for food and iphones in a month.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-11-28 09:49

#5 A good famine or water, power and food can reverse those numbers in about 12 weeks.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-11-28 07:57

#4 Without the Electoral College, the small states would not have join the new union under the Constitution. There wouldn't be a 'United States' and therefore no need to fight a civil war where over 250,000 mostly white farm boys from the north would never have to 'give their full measure of devotion' to put the 13th Amendment into the document. Rural Americans are the reason you have a form of classical democracy, not to be confused the Ms. Reid's "Peoples Democratic Republic of" soviet authoritarian style government.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-28 07:09

#3 Who feeds you? How do you survive?
What is your real purpose, Barbie? When will you dawn your Burkah?

Posted by: newc 2017-11-28 04:19

#2 Those girls are planting your next batch of watermelons, so lay off it, OK?

Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-11-28 04:05

#1 Crime ridden, government dependent urban tumors and multicultural 'sanctuary cities' really are the key to the development of modern society. You'll see.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-28 03:51

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