Brings to mind the lyrics of Hank Williams Jr. Song “country boy can survive”.

The preacher man says it's the end of time And the Mississippi River, she's a-goin' dry The interest is up and the stock market's down And you only get mugged if you go downtown

I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive

I can plow a field all day long I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn (Yeah) We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain't too many things these old boys can't do

We grow good-ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive

Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run 'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns We say grace, and we say ma'am If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn

I had a good friend in New York City He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly My grandpa taught me how to live off the land And his taught him to be a businessman

He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights and I'd send him some homemade wine But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife For 43 dollars, my friend lost his life

I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes And shoot him with my old .45 'Cause a country boy can survive Country folks can survive

We're from North California and South Alabam' And little towns all around this land And we can skin a buck, and run a trotline And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive A country boy can survive Country folks can survive

You are right, but also I think it's because we rural Americans very existence is an affront to their own woke ways. The very idea that a large majority of the population exists that is such a polar opposite of their ways is intolerable to them.

I'm old enough to have seen this coming for a long time now. Those (they) wish to eliminate, (they) first must vilify. They think that WE are the cause of all their problems and they have been very vocal about their hatred for us.

I've sort of been expecting a low intensity civil war for decades now. I know, Q said there will be no civil war, but still, one has to wonder how this impasse can be resolved. What we are in right now is unsustainable.

And I will add that we stand for all we believe in til the end!

Second reply. While looking at TS this morning, I had an epiphany, and another reason for why (they) hate us so much. They can't help but see the massive outpouring of Patriots at Trump rallies and his growing support around the nation in the current primaries, as Trump wins one after another.

(They) fear what their fevered little brains call "fascism and tyranny" while they refuse to see the ACTUAL fascism and tyranny coming from themselves and the Democrat Party.

I think they must be like the Loyalists to King George in the American Revolution, seeing their way of life being overturned by a swelling tide of American patriotism.

It must really suck to be (them).

Spot on. Exact same reasons Bolsheviks hated white rural Orthodox Russians.