Comment by rayiner

> Who the rural folks in Georgia keep voting for? In record numbers?

It’s an error to assume that “big business” is a homogenous undifferentiated entity. A central source of conflict in nations has always been that different regions of the country have different economic interests. The recent alignment of Wall Street and Silicon Valley with the Democratic Party reflects the fact that the knowledge economy and globalism, combined with mass immigration, benefits NYC and SF at the expense of the south and Midwest. Folks in rural Georgia correctly perceive that these economic trends are contrary to their interests and vote against them.

> However, yes, these rural folks ARE the ones standing in front of abortion clinics and assaulting people and shooting doctors. They ARE the ones who drove up to Washinton, DC, to take part in an insurrection. etc.

It’s remarkable how the elite have convinced themselves that they aren’t the elite. You’re a FAANG engineer or Wall Streeter making half a million dollars a year? Simply by declaring your support for vaguely defined marginalized groups (in a way that doesn’t actually cost you anything, of course) you can transform yourself into the victim and some rioting rednecks into the real threat. The folks who were never cut out for college and whose jobs have been exported to China? They’re actually muggers holding a knife to the throat of good people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street who are “doing good while doing well.”