Western Standard - How the woke are attacking small towns.

00:00:00.000 demonized by the crazed woke left all over a song song. So let me talk about small towns a little

00:00:08.120 bit. I live in Prittis, Alberta. It's a little hamlet in the Rocky Mountain foothills just west

00:00:14.160 of the city of Calgary. I'm near Calgary, but I'm in the bush there. That's why I get those great

00:00:17.440 pictures on my game camera. It's a diverse community. We got people of all sorts of

00:00:21.760 backgrounds and such because a lot commute to the nearby city of Calgary, but the prime local

00:00:25.800 industry is ranching. It's a small town. Now with my house, it has a lot of history behind it. Back

00:00:31.600 in 1920, there was actually a sizable tea house built on what's now my property. And when the owner

00:00:37.100 of that tea house retired at the start of the 1960s, he sold the home to a couple who had eight

00:00:42.100 children. They were big families back then, but that big old tea house was ideal for such a big

00:00:46.800 family. Unfortunately, it was also a fire trap. And in 1962, the house burned to the ground and a family

00:00:53.680 of 10 people found itself homeless. So then what happened? Well, the community stepped up.

00:00:59.680 The father and the older children were actually housed in a nearby community hall and the mother

00:01:03.720 and younger children were sent to Manitoba to live with extended family. Neighbors from our area

00:01:08.480 hitched in and they built a modest log home on what's now my property. The family's period of

00:01:15.140 homelessness was terrible, but relatively short. And that was thanks to the effort of the community.

00:01:19.240 I learned about that part of my home's history when some of those kids now who are older than I am

00:01:24.320 came to visit Jane and I at our house, actually. It was a very emotional reunion for them seeing the

00:01:29.020 place where they grew up back then. Now going further, I used to own the local pub in Prentiss.

00:01:33.540 I talk about that now and then. If you really want to know everybody in your area, run the local pub.

00:01:38.980 I tell you, everybody comes by at one way at a time or another. Now in the last year before I sold that pub,

00:01:43.600 we were robbed twice in a matter of weeks. The cost of the theft and the damages caused by them set us

00:01:49.480 back dearly and it was stressful. It was autumn. Our slow season was approaching. And I mean, the pub

00:01:54.500 was profitable, but the profits were pretty modest and we were in a tight spot. And within hours of

00:01:58.940 the first robbery, a neighbor actually brought over a piece of plywood and cut it for us to secure the

00:02:02.980 door where the glass had been smashed out. And the day after that, local children created a bunch of

00:02:08.180 fantastic notes and pictures that they decorated the door with. Yeah, you see pictures and drawings

00:02:12.880 thanking us for running the local business and everything really bright in my morning in a dark

00:02:15.920 time. I was going to open my boarded up door in the pub for the day. The owner of another pub in a

00:02:21.480 nearby town, a competitor, held a surprise fundraiser for us. Our community made a point of patronizing our

00:02:26.700 place more than ever to help us get back on our feet again. It helped us financially and emotionally get

00:02:31.940 through what was a tough winter. Now we've come together and Prentiss as a community for our neighbors when

00:02:36.340 well, they've lost children, lost homes, even when they've lost pets unexpectedly. And it's hard to find that

00:02:42.460 kind of local support network in a city. What does it all come down to? In small towns, we take care

00:02:48.060 of our own. And that's the line. It's the main one that the woke are losing their minds over in Jason

00:02:53.380 Aldean's hit song, Try That in a Small Town. Somebody dared to say we take care of our own. The insane

00:02:58.900 left is claiming that line has hidden racist undertones. As not only is that a load of hogwash, 0.99

00:03:05.140 it's insulting to cut down what's actually such a beautiful thing is the protective civic spirit of

00:03:10.700 small towns. It has nothing to do with race. I don't doubt small communities in countries with

00:03:15.120 people of all races are similar in that sense of community and protecting their neighbors.

00:03:19.880 If anything, people in cities should be looking at ways to emulate the tight-knit communities of

00:03:23.980 small towns. It feels good to know your neighbors, to be able to help your neighbors and to be able

00:03:28.240 to depend on your neighbors. And you don't need to be in a small town to try and develop those

00:03:31.960 relationships. Aldean makes a valid point in his song. He mentions things such as people being sucker

00:03:37.320 punched on sidewalks or old ladies being carjacked. These things don't happen often,

00:03:41.880 if ever, in small towns, as the perpetrators don't tend to get away before locals can get

00:03:45.880 their hands on them. In the city, people have been trained to look the other way rather than intervene

00:03:50.480 for their neighbors, and it's a bad trend. Yeah, sure, crime happens. My bar was robbed in a small

00:03:55.220 town. Should be noted, though, when the criminals were caught, it was found they came in actually from

00:03:58.840 the city to rob us. I didn't need a bouncer when I had my pub. The local regulars took care of that

00:04:05.260 into my bar, and we'll be tied, and it happened, to visiting folks who might think it's a good idea

00:04:09.180 to start trouble in a small town bar. It's tiresome watching race baiters trying to find evidence of

00:04:15.520 racism in everything. Why go ballistic over a song celebrating and pointing out one of the benefits

00:04:21.480 of living in a small town? Why are some people so obsessed with division that they have to inject

00:04:26.160 racism into a song where there was none? Look, it might not be for everybody, but small towns are

00:04:32.160 great, folks. I'd recommend to anybody who can work remotely to get out of the city. Cities are

00:04:36.960 crime-ridden, over-governed, and running out of housing. They're crowded. Small-town living is

00:04:42.660 cost-effective, the air is fresher, it's safer, and most importantly, in small towns, we take care of

00:04:48.700 our own, no matter what color. So I just wanted to get that out, guys. You know, I just had to

00:04:54.620 counter that. I know people have been discussing that song, and the pushback, and those

00:04:58.380 inheritance on The View talking about how evil and racist that song was. Again, no basis. No basis.

00:05:05.040 We just have to inject that division. Guys, I'm here to defend small towns. I love them,

00:05:09.760 and they're good people, and it's just ridiculous to watch the woke come down on them.

Western Standard - July 27, 2023

How the woke are attacking small towns.

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