{"id":1357117,"date":"2022-03-03T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357117"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:38:02","slug":"nolte-inc-spreads-misinformation-about-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-inc-spreads-misinformation-about-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Inc. Spreads Misinformation About Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-inc-spreads-misinformation-about-rural-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Rural-America-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The tech publication <em>Inc<\/em>. decided to go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/geoffrey-james\/7-reasons-to-avoid-going-rural-to-work-from-home.html\">trolling<\/a> with a piece titled \u201c7 Reasons to Avoid Going Rural to Work From Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sub-headline reads, \u201cLiving in the hinterlands costs less than in the city, but there are some downsides to consider.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>My first response was, Oh, please, please write more stuff like this. We don\u2019t want you here. Stay away. It\u2019s awful. Except, you know, it\u2019s not awful. Rural America is awesome. Last year I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\/status\/1397583611650580482?s=20&#038;t=8Ys232artS4lQk29JKuhpg\">proved<\/a>\u00a0MAGA Country is the Utopia leftists claim to want.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s a taste of the seven reasons\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The first on the list, naturally, is guns\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing like sitting in the sun on a deck in [a] comfortable house in the middle of the woods with a gentle breeze carrying the sound of constant gunfire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He says that like it\u2019s a bad thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Covalent with rural gun culture is rural pickup culture. Truck drivers in rural America drive with their brights on, constantly tailgate, and honk long and hard should you do something that inconveniences them[.]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m 56 years old. I\u2019ve lived in Rural America for three decades. That\u2019s never happened to me. Not once. Also, I\u2019ve never used the word \u201ccovalent.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You know you\u2019re in rural America when you order Chinese food, and the first thing that hits the table is a basket of bread rolls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They don\u2019t do that at my Chinese restaurant, but I\u2019m going to ask them to. I love bread.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Strike up a conversation with the guy next to you, if you\u2019re curious about how a MAGA nut perceives the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ll admit he has a point on that one. But that\u2019s only because I\u2019m a MAGA nut myself, and, unlike the author, I much prefer to have conversations with people I disagree with. Obviously, this <em>Inc.<\/em> guy is uncomfortable when he\u2019s not surrounded by the like-minded. However, I find people who think differently and see the world differently fascinating and challenging. Some people prefer the safety of the echo chamber\u2014different strokes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s an art show at the town hall if you ever feel compelled to reassure yourself that the Bob Ross school of painting is still as influential as it was in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of soulless snob speaks ill of Bob Ross?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n[M]y wife, who teaches in a typically rural elementary school, found a bullet shell casing on the floor yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If that anodyne anecdote is your only blast at rural education, I\u2019d say we\u2019re doing pretty well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sure, city building[s] have cockroaches, but you don\u2019t know creepy crawlies until you\u2019ve picked up a towel in your downstairs bathroom and found 25 garden spiders ranging from half-an-inch across to the size of your toddler\u2019s palm, all [of] them scurrying for cover, including under your bare feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s also freaked out about a black widow and a \u201csix-inch albino walking stick with bright blue eyes,\u201d which makes me wonder if Geoffrey James is the nom de plume of a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>But again, I grew up in rural Wisconsin and have now spent more than 20 years in rural North Carolina. My wife and I have camped all over the Deep South, in national parks and the like, and <em>Eek a bug!<\/em> just isn\u2019t a thing \u2014 at least not any more than it was when we lived in Los Angeles, which has a huge skunk problem.<\/p>\n<p>But by all means, please, please do avoid moving to Rural America. Things are good here, and we\u2019d like to keep it that way. And things are good here because the people here are good. You see, we\u2019re not entitled snobs. We take people as they come. We look out for one another. Yes, we\u2019re all armed, and yet mass shootings and violent crime mostly happen in urban America. Oh, and unlike urban America, our air, water, and streets are safe and clean. Our per capita hate crime rates dwarf left-wing cities. You see, unlike those oh-so-progressive cities, we take care of our natural resources and live and let live.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m certainly not claiming everyone out here is perfect and that there are no problems. Human nature is human nature. But at least we don\u2019t break down in hysterics over spiders and empty shell casings. We\u2019re Americans, not babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech publication Inc. decided to go trolling with a piece titled \u201c7 Reasons to Avoid Going Rural to Work From Home.\u201d The sub-headline reads, \u201cLiving in the hinterlands costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}