“For that money, we could buy up TV stations...not just TV ads."
March 21, 2025 4:21 PM Subscribe
Via Americans of Conscience Checklist: Rural organizers and grassroots leaders in the U.S. form the Rural Defenders Union to support under-resourced anti-authoritarian actions.
"In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis. Compared to our parents’ generation, jobs are harder to get, they pay less, and they are harder to keep. Suicide, mental illness, incarceration, divorce, liver disease, family separation, and overdose deaths are at or near all-time highs. We have been ringing the alarm bell for decades, but we were largely written off. Now, the authoritarianism we’ve been up against is coming for the whole country.
If you tell us that America is already great, don’t be surprised if we reject the premise. More often than not, politicians of both parties do not have a communications problem in rural America; they have a reality problem. "
"In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis. Compared to our parents’ generation, jobs are harder to get, they pay less, and they are harder to keep. Suicide, mental illness, incarceration, divorce, liver disease, family separation, and overdose deaths are at or near all-time highs. We have been ringing the alarm bell for decades, but we were largely written off. Now, the authoritarianism we’ve been up against is coming for the whole country.
If you tell us that America is already great, don’t be surprised if we reject the premise. More often than not, politicians of both parties do not have a communications problem in rural America; they have a reality problem. "
I like this part.
posted by Lemkin at 4:48 PM on March 21 [3 favorites]
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