As promised, NPR is devoting time to "rural diners" and "how they feel."

[PSPS]

The usual "election was stolen," "child sex rings," "trump is still my president," etc. I guess Paul Henning still lives except it's not funny anymore.

[MacKasey]

1. So all rural diners are racists!

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Not really

but NPR has displayed an uncanny talent for finding the ones who ARE.

[MacKasey]

10. I agree

It is like, can they not find people who are not racist

I do not want to hear the Trump cry babies anymore

I want to hear from Biden supporters for a change

[lame54]

14. It's the hash browns

[MacKasey]

18. Hash browns and fox news

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. It's why I never go in them...even before the pandemic.

They are filled with hateful people and usually owned by even more hateful people.

[RAB910]

4. They didn't just "happen" to become that way

we need to deal with the anti-America destructive right-wing hate/propaganda machine that is destroying America

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Got any ideas?

Because I sure don't...at least ones that are viable. The Hatch Act isn't being resurrected and as long as idiots watch and listen to the programming, faux snooze and hate radio isn't going away either.

[RAB910]

7. I think the Dems and the Left need to put more resources and effort into counter programing

Years ago I read an observation that the right/GOP put all it's money into propaganda networks like Rush Limbaugh and FOX News

The left/Dems favor grassroots activism.


The problem is that the propaganda networks are far easier to maintain than the excitement and effort needed with activism

[DBoon]

11. I wish there was a fund supporting progressive rural public radio

You can donate to individual stations, but there should be a vehicle for the entire demographic.

Now if you are talking legislation, the Fairness Doctrine would be great.

Also, set limits on corporate ownership of media and require local programming on radio stations.

[maxsolomon]

20. NPR is broadcast nearly everywhere in America

"Rural Diners" tune it out. it doesn't confirm their biases.

[Hortensis]

9. And this is so very different how? The liberal vote in rural areas

runs from @25-40%, and that's the VOTE. Then it also requires denying all the rural conservatives who are not hateful.

So, again, the many posts this one echoes are so very different from...well, the many RW posts this one echoes (sub "city" for "rural" ) how?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

23. "Well, you walk into a restaurant all strung-out from the road

And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
All the same old clichés, is it a woman, or a man?
And you always seem outnumbered, so you don't dare make a stand"

- Turn the Page, Bob Seger

[Wicked Blue]

6. F*ck their feelings

They need to GET OVER IT

[Aristus]

8. Suburban, too; not just rural.

Back before COVID-19, I used to go to my local diner for breakfast on days off from work. Best biscuits and gravy in town. (For a Southern boy living in the Pacific Northwest, this is an important find...) When the place was below capacity, I would try to sit away from the throngs of breakfasters in their trucker caps and quilted vests, bitching and moaning about liberals, Communists, unions (I'm sure there were some union members among them, promoting the usual rationalization - 'All unions are bad except mine' ) Muslims, gays, transgender people, etc, etc.

How shitty does a person's life have to be before living a life of perpetual grievance is considered fulfilling?...

[BusyBeingBest]

12. The forgotten people need to go back to being forgotten.

Stop paying attention to them, media. Please.

[RobinA]

13. Only Pay Attention

when they bust into the Capital? Somebody(s) needs to do a "listening tour" and see where they are coming from and what they want. Just saying they are racist doesn't cut it. There's nothing anybody can do with that.

[BusyBeingBest]

15. Too much attention paid to these backwards fuckers, they've had NOTHING BUT

ATTENTION for years now, Salena Zito made a whole industry out of the Trump-voter-in-the-diner schtick. Puffed up to the point that they thought they could literally invade the US Capitol and reverse an election and threaten Congressmen. They didn't do that because they were ignored for too long, or downtrodden. They did that because their delusional self-importance as the "real Murkins" got out of hand, they thought they could act with impunity, there would be no consequences--I think they thought they'd be held up as heroes, in fact.

[maxsolomon]

21. They'll talk; they won't listen.

They want their unfounded fears catered to, they want their roads paved, they want gas cheap, they want "good jobs" to come back, they want the clock to run backwards.

[Hugin]

16. "No sir, I don't like it"

Useless MITS (Man in the street) pabulum.

It only serves to amplify the voices of the uninformed and their subjective biases. When objective measures don't fit the narrative whoever is creating the piece wants to establish. Since they can show selected responses to give the illusion of consensus.

[BusyBeingBest]

19. +1000 just for the Ren and Stimpy reference.

[Hugin]

25. ...

How about that! I've stumbled upon the other R&S fan.

[BusyBeingBest]

26. My husband and I even

still say, "No sir--I don't like it!" on occasion--thought we were the only ones who remembered that..

[Hugin]

27. "I don't like it at all!"

Yep. Mr Horse echoes through my mind quite often.

[Happy Hoosier]

17. These idiots need to be treated with the contempt they deserve.

I am 100% tired of this bullshit. Kick 'em to the curb and let's get shit done.

[roamer65]

22. Who cares?

I don’t.

[rurallib]

24. If you are eating in rural diners and ignoring social distancing guidelines

I am guessing already that your politics skew right.