Traditionalism
There are no coal mines in Times Square; there are no lumber companies felling trees in Central Park; there is not a fish factory in Martha’s Vineyard; there are no cattle ranches as one takes the Architecture River Cruise touring downtown Chicago; there are no wheat fields in Marina Del Ray, Malibu or any other part of Los Angeles; there are no electrical energy plants in or around Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. I could name almost any major or large American city and throw in these same primary industry statistics.
Most primary industry and much of secondary industry lives among the people Katie Couric referred to as the “unwashed masses” which is defined as “the collective group of people who are considered to be uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles”. Perhaps the same people Barrack Obama claimed as those who, “cling to guns or religion.”
Undoubtedly the greatest transgression in these areas or states for Couric and ilk is voting conservative, not necessarily Republican but for the most conservative candidate – conservative meaning a desire to conserve – the rural and small-town way of life, traditions, customs, and employment in their chosen industries. The other sins against progressivism are construed as many, but one of the most egregious is the majority’s disbelief and mistrust of climate change speculation and the politicians that advocate for the theory and craft pointless and costly policies surrounding it.
These promoters cause the loss of industry, the loss of employment, the loss of family, and friends, and the loss of shared rural happiness. These are the politicians, along with the big city bureaucrats, Hollywood minions, high-tech honchos, and corporate cronies that want to tear apart sound and stable primary industry in search of some utopian ideal that has no chance of working and every chance of abandoning and forsaking the lives, livelihoods, and future of rural America.
Yet, these same people are deemed by many elitists to be in servitude to the larger metropolitan areas. With superfluous and detrimental climate policy by the preferred politicians and politics of city people eventually, there will be nothing available to serve. Further, as a result of political persuasion and policy, primary industries in rural areas are beginning to close, causing jobs to be lost, families to be split, and years of traditions wiped out. What the politician only sees is that a small number of votes are being forfeited – no big deal in the world of perverted politics where power prevails and people in opposition are ignored and swiftly brushed aside.
People in big cities see more of the crime and corruption and deem the need for protection from the government, although the irrational ones think law enforcement needs to be defunded. As well, they observe the dirt, debris, and filth and assume government needs to make their world clean and orderly. More government is incessantly the city’s answer – in the rural precincts the answer comes instead with self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and when need be, community collaboration.
Among other nations of the world, America gets its arrogant, supercilious, narcissistic decree, not from the more pastoral country folk, but the self-important, self-opinionated, overbearing cosmopolite who deem sophistication and refinement solely belong to them and those that subsist within their self-proclaimed ‘gifted’ group think.
Not all city dwellers are to be categorized the same, many especially those with a more rural or small town upbringing continue to understand that others have an important and essential place and role in the nation – perhaps even more so. With the written word, I fight for the rural folk, the country people, and those in the smaller towns toiling with politically decreasing access to natural resources and primary industries, not because I haven’t worked in cities, but because I have.
