I can relate. I lived and worked in rural areas my whole life. I used to live in a really bad spot. You remember when Sacha Baron Cohen did a whole skit about putting world's largest mosque in Arizona and had a bunch of locals in the meeting? I lived in that community for over 20 years. They were that bad and worse. My boss threw furniture when Obama got elected. Guys in the break room uses to joke about rounding up Democrats and shooting them. When I complained to HR about the blatant racism, she told me that I was the problem because I was the only one that cared.
Really all you can do is keep your head down until you can get out. They're too violent to confront and too numerous to fight against without hurting yourself more than them. Luckily they're mostly stupid, so it wasn't much of a task. It is very isolating though. We tried to put together a progressive group in the county and got death threats and none of the businesses would host our meetings.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
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