Entire libraries worth of ink have been poured in an effort to understand, mythologize, and explain the behavior of white rural voters — why they are so attached to former President Donald Trump, and perhaps the ways that voters and politicians in more cosmopolitan areas don't understand the sufferi...
Article is about their politics not their speech. It was about empty performative politics coming from politicians who actively vote against their constituents best interests. The reason Ted Cruz is the cover image is because they specifically use as an example him going to Cancun while rural conservative Texans were freezing to death.
Obviously, but ignoring the rhetoric spouted by the left wing is omitting a huge factor as to how this came to be.
Are you just too young to remember libtard, feminazi, etc? Or are you deliberately telling lies to craft some kind of narrative where the side you support is the poor put upon victim that couldn’t possibly be expected to have responsibility for a god damned thing?
How about pinko commie?
“The other side is acting like dipshits, let’s do the exact fucking thing” lmao
Wow.
I can’t imagine what could possibly have turned you from being interested in how this all started and who we ought to really place the blame on into just trying to be the biggest dipshit.
So… ignoring what conservatives say about themselves doesn’t seem to be working out so well for Democrats? Hrm, imagine that…
Though incoherent, your comment does point to a major cause of conservative voters constantly voting against their own interests: reading comprehension & general education.
Hahaha brutal
The article is about how Republican politicians are just openly doing absolutely nothing for their constituents and that this act is more insulting than political speech about them can possibly be. The article is arguing the opposite of what you seem to think. It argues that we are paying too much attention to the what conservatives say and how we talk about them and not enough to the actions of their politicians and how brazenly they disregard their voters’ needs.
Thank you for at least attempting to be polite. The other responses make me realize that Trump is going to win, when even this bastion of liberalism on Lemmy remains mired at the level of discourse that seems to me to be about kindergarten level.
First, this article is EXTREMELY thin - it says nothing that I have not heard for literal decades - e.g. I liked this one (explaining, among other things, that e.g. a “2-party system” is nothing new in world history), and more recently this series, or for a more mathematical bent watch this one (but ngl, this related one may really fuck you up… seriously, you were warned).
Second, the attitude of the Greek stoics is that we cannot control what lies outside our purview, but we MUST control what lies within that (if we claim to be responsible… and yet not a hypocrite). I did not think that I was making 10-D chess moves here to say that we might want to try acting like grown-ups. Like for one thing, there are ~80% of Americans that lie somewhere between the two extremes of far-left and far-right, but even if only 2% could be swayed to vote to R v. D, that actually might be enough to turn the rudder of this entire whole ship, b/c that’s just how plurality rules voting works (within the constraints of the electoral college).
My absolute hero, Jon Stewart, once said: “liberal media aims to be correct, but conservative media aims to be effective”. I suppose it is too much to ask that we hold ourselves to a higher standard, in at least an attempt to be both?
Or, you know, we could stick our fingers in our ears and cry “nah nah I can’t hear you”, attempting to gain solace in being “correct”, while downvoting and criticizing people (in this case, [email protected]) who even so much as dares to voice an opinion that the flavor of the month crowd decides is “bad”? Again: this is why Trump will win. B/c while conservatives may argue amongst themselves, at the end of the day they pull together and vote as a block, while liberals instead eat our own. Which convinces me that whatever may come from the next election, we fucking brought it upon ourselves, by refusing to live in reality, e.g. if we cannot even talk politely amongst ourselves here, then what hope is there for the wider election audience?:-(