How DARE you blue state "Democrats" look down your noses at those of us in the heartland!! [View All]

[Skidmore]

I've read through thread after thread where y'all sneer at the people out here in middle America who came to vote for candidates in Democratic Party primaries and caucuses. How fucking dare you! There are those of us out here in the wildnerness who for more than a decade kept the flame alive when the political power brokers could not take the time to give us resources or offices. WE were the ones who called our representatives and senators when they were being stupid. We were the ones who talked to our families and neighbors over and over again about what was wrong with the Republican agenda and worked at living down the labels that the asshole paid political hit people hung on us. No doubt some of your are among that crowd. Then you have the gall to dismiss the work we did to get people to meetups, rallies, and the polls for this party? How fucking DARE you! Do you think this was easy to do? Do you know how many hours of talking and listening and pointing out common ground and the fact that behind the labels most of us really want pretty much a fair shake at a decent life for ourselves and our families? Do you even care?

FYI, I am not interested in maintaining the power structures of DC or the big urban centers, especially if they cannot see beyond the shishypoopoo glass facades in which the connected gaze lovingly into the eyes of their own reflections. We're out here on broad stretches of prairies and open land. You look to us when you are hungry and cold for the basics in life, and court us for funds that are increasingly scarce. Get over yourselves! We went with friends and families to the polls to voice our concerns and to pick the person we each believed to be the best leader. We don't all agree. But let me tell you that the nation is hurting, even us who have been labelled as "red staters" (y'all know we can't be Democrats) and bumpkins.

Now I live in Iowa so we do get to really participate in the primaries, but we have states nearby who rarely do, and you know why some of those tended to vote red? Because the Democratic Party got lazy and sat on its collective ass assuming that the New Deal would last forever. Thank goodness for Howard Dean and for Barack Obama who remembered that a flame burns in the Heartland and the High Plains. Thank goodness that someone remembered that there are fifty states in the union and not just a half a dozen "big states" whose citizenry believe that only they and their ideas count.