{"id":2252755,"date":"2024-05-25T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heartland-americans-are-like-this-antelope-theyll-only-take-so-much-before-rising-up-and-terrifying-their-attacker\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:32:09","slug":"heartland-americans-are-like-this-antelope-theyll-only-take-so-much-before-rising-up-and-terrifying-their-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heartland-americans-are-like-this-antelope-theyll-only-take-so-much-before-rising-up-and-terrifying-their-attacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Americans, like antelopes, rise up when pushed too far, terrifying their attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fheartland-americans-are-like-this-antelope-theyll-only-take-so-much-before-rising-up-and-terrifying-their-attacker%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=2252755&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--><p>The article\u200d by\u2062 C. Douglas Golden reflects\u2064 on\u200b Heartland Americans&#8217; \u200bresilience\u200c likened to an antelope facing \u200dchallenges. It discusses the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-kurt-russell-became-part-of-the-news-coverage-when-o-j-simpson-was-on-the-run\/\" title=\"Kurt Russell's Involvement in O.J. Simpson's Escape Made Headlines\">captivating nature<\/a> of\u200d animal videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-kind-of-a-jerk-carlson-mocks-implosion-of-2-gop-hopefuls-during-interview-with-beck\/\" title=\"Carlson ridicules downfall of 2 GOP candidates in chat with Beck\">social \u2064media<\/a> and draws parallels to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/backlash-against-disney-grows-after-liberal-actor-in-show-with-gina-carano-made-similar-posts-still-has-job\/\" title=\"Backlash Against Disney Grows After Liberal Actor In Show With Gina Carano Made Similar Posts, Still Has Job\">current political climate<\/a> in the U.S., emphasizing the\u200b need for standing up \u2064against adversity and\u200c not \u200bbeing misled. \u200bThe article by C. Douglas Golden highlights the resilience \u2062of Heartland Americans, drawing parallels between their strength and that of \u200ban \u2062antelope facing challenges. It explores the popularity of animal videos on social media and \u200dlinks this fascination to the current \u2062political landscape in the \u2064U.S., stressing the importance\u200d of standing firm \u2064in the face of adversity and avoiding deception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>  <\/p>\n<h2>Heartland Americans Are Like This Antelope &#8211; They&#8217;ll Only Take So Much Before Rising Up and Terrifying Their Attacker<\/h2>\n<p> <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 25, 2024 at 8:08am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Every day, across social media platforms, millions of people will watch nature videos.<\/p>\n<p>Your witty riposte, your heartwarming Insta, your latest TikTok dance \u2014 none of these are as magnetic as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mario-kart-and-early-bedtimes-these-6-headlines-show-the-medias-worship-of-the-biden-administration\/\" title=\"\u2018Mario Kart\u2019 And \u2018Early Bedtimes\u2019: These 6 Headlines Show The Media\u2019s Worship Of The Biden Administration\">viral clip<\/a> of wild or domestic animals acting in ways that we, as humans, can relate to. Consider that, among the most-read obituaries of the past week, was that of Kabosu \u2014 the Shiba Inu dog that\u2019s responsible for the \u201cDoge\u201d meme online.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czkkr8l7jjxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> dedicated 16 paragraphs to her passing. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-offers-prediction-trumps-polling-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> posted a farewell to Kabosu \u2014 implying, in his uniquely Muskian way, that she was up with another animal of viral video fame, Harambe:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OG Doge has ascended to heaven to be with his friend Harambe<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Not_the_Bee?\">@Not_the_Bee<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1794022958996033811?\">May 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This all raises the question: What\u2019s the appeal? Why have almost 10 million people watched a Facebook video of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=179318188135511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flying squirrel faking his own death<\/a> while only two people reacted to pictures of your latest family vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because we, as humans, see ourselves \u2014 our foibles, our predicaments, our hopes, our fears and our reality \u2014 in the place of the animals that we\u2019re watching, even though it just might be a demonstration of some unconscious natural reaction at work.<\/p>\n<p>As exhibit A for this phenomenon, I\u2019d like to put forward another video that\u2019s chalked up a few million views in just a day, this one of a type of antelope called a nyala, a crocodile and a lion on X, formerly Twitter. We\u2019ll call the antelope \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ev-sales-absolutely-bomb-heartland-america-region-sending-big-message-biden-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heartland America<\/a>,\u201d the crocodile \u201cReality,\u201d and the lion \u201cProgressivism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5sOb6NDxE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compass Media<\/a>, the video was reportedly taken on safari by a visitor to Mkuze Game Park in South Africa and posted on YouTube in April of 2023. It\u2019s gotten almost a million views there, but it did a lot better when an account on X posted it, along with a caption that said \u201cWhat lesson did you learn from this?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you identify with this video?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the beginning of the video, the antelope \u2014 which has gone into the water to try and escape the lion \u2014 ends up getting jolted from the water by the croc.<\/p>\n<p>The nyala might seem like easy prey for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/beloved-african-lioness-killed-introduction-new-lion-birmingham-zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lion<\/a> at this point \u2014 but, as she goes to devour it, it stands its ground, staring down the predator.<\/p>\n<p>The two animals circle each other on the dirt road, with the lion backing down. Eventually, she gets off the dirt road but tries to approach the antelope again. It runs at her with its horns.<\/p>\n<p>The lioness then sulks down the dirt path with the antelope watching:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What lesson did you learn from this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1gI8RWQP65\">pic.twitter.com\/1gI8RWQP65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nature is Amazing \u2618\ufe0f (@AMAZlNGNATURE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMAZlNGNATURE\/status\/1794016508076609915?\">May 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There were, indeed, many people who took some kind of personal lesson from this, most of which went something like these quote-posts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Be assertive sometimes you need to stand your ground no matter how fearsome the opposer is also you will be met with problems no matter what stage you are in life know when to run and know where to stand and fight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GRiXrrBttX\">https:\/\/t.co\/GRiXrrBttX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Azeez. (@jibolakusimo_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jibolakusimo_\/status\/1794191965581701270?\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t run, face it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XWkJyv2SPh\">https:\/\/t.co\/XWkJyv2SPh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julio Cesar Garcia (@YoJulito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoJulito\/status\/1794244508839997914?\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">when you\u2019ve had enough, you\u2019ve had enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eaUJTjHDag\">https:\/\/t.co\/eaUJTjHDag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reyn (@ReynDavrie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReynDavrie\/status\/1794151238272987626?\">May 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of us engaged politically in America, however, this makes for a neat metaphor going into an election year where middle America has gotten fed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chart-shows-change-household-net-worth-biden-par-trump-years-adjusting-inflation-undoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a> and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us may have had apprehensions about former President Donald Trump, either during his presidency or afterwards. Although I\u2019m under no illusions about the audience we usually reach, I know plenty of independents or Republicans who either didn\u2019t vote or may have cast a vote for Biden because of, for lack of a better term, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/way-worse-mean-tweets-biden-admin-issues-chilling-message-americans-just-1-week-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mean tweets<\/a>.\u201d I get it.<\/p>\n<p>However, America as a country waded into this presidency and found a crocodile waiting for us. One huge, multiheaded crocodile, to be frank. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mcdonalds-offering-free-nuggets-inflation-makes-prices-skyrocket-get\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inflation<\/a>. Job insecurity. Supply-line issues. Neo-Marxist wokeness. A president that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-warns-israel-says-stop-sending-weapons-continue-rafah-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gives comfort to our enemies and condemns our allies<\/a>. And, perhaps most frustrating of all, a media which does all it can to pretend that crocodiles don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Reality having cast us from the pool of deception, we now come face-to-face with the lion of progressivism, the one that tells us any vote for the GOP is a vote for fascism, \u201celection denial\u201d and all sorts of Very Bad Things\u2122. Except, like the antelope, sensible Americans don\u2019t want to be eaten.<\/p>\n<p>And so we\u2019re not letting ourselves be fooled this time. The foolish attack has woken us up. This has the lionesses of the media-political complex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-takes-commanding-lead-biden-even-cnn-poll-shows-45-holds-major-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fretting<\/a>, especially after a poll from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/survey-research\/2024-swing-state-project\/unique-election-driven-traditional-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swing State Project<\/a> this week found Trump up by an aggregate of 3 points across seven battleground states, and leading in all of them but Wisconsin. But what can they do? Once you\u2019ve exhausted the fascism-denialism route, there\u2019s no worse you can do. They\u2019ve tried their moves before and heartland Americans have had enough.<\/p>\n<p>See what you will in this animal video. I see hope \u2014 hope not only for the preyed-upon, but hope for America.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. Will you help us fight? 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-reacted-to-rush-limbaughs-death\/\" title=\"How The Media Reacted To Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Death\">political commentary<\/a> and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his commentary, C. Douglas Golden compares Heartland Americans to antelopes, emphasizing their tendency to rise up against oppression. 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