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...
This isn’t news to some of us. Many of us have wondered for years why they support politicians who actively lobby against their interests like getting rid of social programs that these people use at the same rate or more than other demographics.
History agrees with progress and these people are always better off with a dem in office but they continue to buy the bullshit spewed by fox, breitbart, etc. The number of “fuck Biden” signs just in my area is astounding. Biden led the charge to fix the economy that trump and company broke but Biden is an asshole? It has been breaking my logic circuits for years.
It’s because the people who cry about “identity politics” will lap up any bullshit excuse to make the rich pay their fair share as long as it’s flavored with jingoistic self-sufficiency or “family values.”
They buy it because it hurts the people they hate; it’s irrelevant if it hurts them too.
I think it’s just cognitive dissonance or doublethink. “Keep your gov’t hands off my Social Security” or “I like the ACA but Obamacare can fuck right off!” “Those people are taking our jobs and our welfare!!”
It’s just so god damn weird. They have been primed to accept anything they are told.
The indoctrination starts at birth. Republicans have held a uncontested chokehold across the South and Midwest for the better part of a half-century by now. This includes a chokehold on those states’ education boards. Remember how much shit they flung about Obama’s Common Core? It wasn’t because they thought the math was taught weird, it was because it was a direct attempt by the (then Democrat) federal government to modernize the
brainwashing“education” policies of their strongholds.The people voting against their best interests aren’t naturally dumb by birthright, they just never stood a chance IMO.
Not to go too far off course but holy fuck was that math taught weird. I was a Montessori kid and even I was confused when I was helping a kid with math and we were dividing apples by bananas and then adding horses or whatever the fuck it was. Some of that shit made no damn sense.