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In reply to the discussion: Red state Nebraska hurting, immigrants gone, caused giant crash in tax revenues [View all]1WorldHope
(1,493 posts)Full disclosure, I am a lifelong Nebraskan. It is interesting noting how I feel about what I'm reading right now. I hope I will be more careful in the future with my comments blaming the whole of a state because of... Well, ok, a majority of voters.
Nebraska is a big state with a lot of farmland. There are a few liberal cities and vast areas of small towns. In those small towns or around them there are one or two uber rich people who have sold their souls to the chemical companies while buying up all the small farms that went broke back in the last farm recession. Everyone in these little towns in the end works for these uber rich land owners. It's like little kingdoms all over the state. And in each of these little towns there's a small number of liberals, a number of poorly educated folks, a number of Mexican migrants who work for these farmers, there is a fair number of old people like myself, very young people, there are teachers and doctors and if they're lucky small hospitals and libraries and yes their world is very small. They strongly believe that people in the cities think they are stupid while knowing that if one of us had to survive on the land we would die and they would live, so their thought is, who are the dumbasses now?
My daughter moved from the capital city of Lincoln to a town of 80 people in western Nebraska. I have lost my mind knowing how red of an area she lives in. The BS she listens to everyday would end me. You are right they would vote for Trump again. But like every population of people, they would jump into a river to save you if you fell in. People are after all just people. People who work with what they know, people who love their children want to be healthy and grow old and die in their sleep like all of us. If even a few learn a lesson or regret their choice of voting for a con man, we should embrace them and forgive them and help them become better people.
This is been an enlightening experience, I really hope that I learn something from it.
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