Americans not only divided but baffled by their opponents

Anyway he's clearly pandering to a certain group of people and those people seem to think that they are the "true America," that they are REAL Americans. But people born and bred in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC et. al. are also REAL Americans, Jimbo. Doctors are true Americans. Lawyers are true Americans. Stock brokers are true Americans. These cities that rural folks hate account for where the vast majority of Americans live, where the majority of American wealth is generated and where the top 10 tourist destinations for international travelers are because they're exciting and interesting places. But middle America HATES these places and HATES the majority of their fellow Americans, constantly putting them down the same way they accuse liberal elites of snubbing their nose down on them

 despite being the most sought after places to live,

Anyway he's clearly pandering to a certain group of people and those people seem to think that they are the "true America," that they are REAL Americans. But people born and bred in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC et. al. are also REAL Americans, Jimbo.

city-folk have no business mocking the intelligence of farmers because urbanites don't know how to grow crops

Look at quality of life indexes, education rates, public safety, health outcomes, civic engagement, unemployment, labor force participation- that 80% of America living in cities run by overwhelmingly democratic governments is living far far better than the 20% Pie calls the real American and improving all the time while life in Republican run rural counties are in long-term generally sustained decline.

Biden won only 509 counties in the 2020 election compared to Trump's 2,547 counties but those 1 out of every 6 counties are home to 67 million more Americans than those 5 out of 6 and generate 71 cents of every dollar in American GDP.  American cities are the engine that drives the American economy, rural counties produce a power net drag on the economy.…The fact is that if America were just a little more democratic in its institutions that 80% of America wouldn't have much reason to care what the more backwards 20% think at all.  

 Country life is far less efficient, safe, or healthy than life in the city and given that the infrastructure and tax dollars required to sustain,  country life is far, far more expensive to taxpayers than life in the city.   America needs stop overfunding this less sustainable lifestyle.  I'm not saying that we need to drag anybody in from the countryside, but certainly rural residents need to pay more of their proportional share of the greater expense it takes to deliver water, electricity, internet, etc to those homes.  Insurance rates for hurricanes, flooding, forest fires, etc need to reflect the wildly disproportionate expense to Americans rural inhabitants represents.  When  rural counties are required to pay their fair share for infrastructure, rural lifestyles will become a luxury most can't afford and American prosperity will be all the more improved by that change.

it’s not accurate to say that 80% of the country was for Biden while 20% was for Trump.

 Also pitching your “reforms” as “now we won’t have reason to care what you think at all!” Is saying the quiet part out loud I think lol

Never said that.  Read it again.

The 80/20 split is urban/rural not Biden/Trump.

It's likely intellectuals view support to rural areas as foreign aid with strings attached.

Is that really what you want for America? Because outside of some tourist hot spots I don’t know if there are any rural areas where they don’t effectively get subsidized by urban areas. But rural areas are where food is grown, where natural resources are extracted, and where unpleasant places like slaughterhouses or these days some factories are. The city and the country need each other. The city can’t produce the natural/agricultural resources it needs to keep running and the country can’t produce the type of wealth that first world citizens demand

We need better public management of critical resources like arable land and fresh water.  I'm not trying to be extreme:  we will always need people to work and manage rural resources.  We will always want to be be able to visit places of natural beauty or escape to oases of solitude but we can manage all that with far fewer people than are living rural now.  Have you ever read Omnivore's Dilemma and Pollan's description of the State of Iowa as one vast factory floor devoted to corn production, overusing the land so aggressively that it becomes increasingly less regenerable to its natural prairie state with each passing year?  How there used to vast stretches without any deer or squirrels because so much land was just an endless carpet of corn (I think Iowa has done much to improve this state in recent years).  That's the kind of unsustainable living I'm thinking of.  

As you say, some factories like slaughterhouses are unpleasant places to live near but that's usually because they are incredibly toxic- we need to protect vital resources from the inevitable pollution and accidents that comes with such places- that means large scale re-zoning and planning and little of that is possible at the current level or rural residency.  Certainly, we need to re-think the amount of land devoted to hyper-inefficient calorie production like cows and pigs.

I don't like the idea of building some house out in the woods that has to be protected from wildfires every few years at greater public expense than than the value of the house.  I don't like throwing public money at rebuilding beachfronts and swamp towns after every hurricane comes through.  With greater population density, we can protect smaller areas more effectively from disaster and let the natural, even necessary processes of fires and hurricanes do their thing without ruining so many lives.

I 1000% agree that crop monoculture is bad. But that’s a land use issue, it has nothing to do with your compliant which was that urban areas have to subsidize rural areas getting roads, electricity, and running water. 

d. But that’s a land use issue, it has nothing to do with your compliant which was that urban areas have to subsidize rural areas getting roads, electricity, and running water.   I fail to see how supporting preventing accidents has anything to do with complaining about subsidizing roads, electricity, and running water to rural areas. 

I find it absolutely weird that central-planning fans act concerned about monocropping when the same central planners made that possible through endless corn subsidies and ethanol propaganda.