Understanding is all well and good, and the local elite absolutely do not understand most of America is practically a third world country, but that doesn't excuse the animals. The rural way of life is dying is because it's objectively awful and always has been. These animals want to drag the world into a dark age so everyone can die as alone, repressed, cowardly, and sad as they are.

I have spent my entire life in a rural shit hole, i can say from experience accepting their bullshit is a choice each and every one of them made. Yes we need to do something, preferably simply making it impossible to live in these dying dead end villages, but sympathy is off the table.