'Nobody's more insulting' to rural voters than Republicans: political scientist
'Nobody's more insulting' to rural voters than Republicans: political scientist
The conman despises the mark, all the while fleecing them.
What will happen to Ted Cruz after he loses in November? Will he become a consultant or lobbyist? Maybe a board member for Haliburton?
I don’t think he has the brains or talent to have his own show on Fox, but I can see him popping up to give his opinion like a canker sore that keeps coming back.
What pisses me off is somehow people like him are more worthy in our society of basic necessities, like owning a home. I'd have to perform a miracle on my employer's dead mother to even be considered for a raise, let alone live comfortably even with a degree.
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I don’t think he has the brains or talent to have his own show on Fox, but I can see him popping up to give his opinion like a canker sore that keeps coming back.
“Fox Gone Wild: the eternal spring break.”
"That population is not demanding anything of Republicans."
Uhhh what? I'm rural and the vast majority will still vote red all the way down, including for Trump. The voting democratic maps are widely available. And they show conclusively that cities vote blue and rural votes red, everywhere. Plenty of conservative rural folk very much dislike Trump, they aren't happy with the GOP, but they would rather not vote or vote third party than ever vote blue.
You just confirmed the post.
I guess I was too focused on the topic of the title. It did literally just end the piece saying rural will always vote red. I misinterpreted "rural people shouldn't vote red; so one might assume that could mean they are open to blue".
Which just confirms that those people are stupid hicks.
Go read the article before commenting.
The problem is, they love being insulted as long as it's in a folksy twang
Holy crap a political scientist has figured it out
It's the rural voters who are wrong, not the party that has ignored them for decades.
I guess Republicans using misinformation and propaganda to get votes is not ignoring them.
I guess democrats calling them a basket of deplorables and then calling them dumb racist white supremacists for two years straight was not really an insult.
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.
To be fair Democrats never called rural people deplorables or racists. That was attributed to Trump's bedfellows. Rural America just bought that it was aimed towards them wholesale.
Rural conservatives with a persecution complex?
In myyyyyy America?
It was a convenient outrage
A lot of propaganda aimed at conservatives paints liberals as bad, so it is natural to assume that the reverse may be true. Also, liberals often talk in an extremely high-handed manner, see e.g. Bill Maher. Also, the vast majority of Obama's economic stimulus dollars went towards cities rather than farmers. The list goes on and on.
It REALLY didn't help when McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate - she made fun of the liberals ruthlessly, and was made fun of by them in turn, and also the media including comedy shows. So the "stupid conservatives" meme... regardless of having some actual basis in fact, is something that they do not enjoy being portrayed as. I know, I know, best not to dish it out if you cannot take it in return but... either way, there it is, a fact that now needs to be worked around. Conservatives are killing people including women and children... but you can't SAY that, without them getting mad.
Weren't they calling themselves deplorable with those shirts, as well as outing themselves for both deplorables AND dumb racist white supremacists with their own behaviors?
It's racism.
Or Theocrats
Or, for a smaller demographic, purely greed
Or a person misled by people who subscribe to the previous three
I still say it's racism all the way down. Anyways has been.
I think this this explains a good chunk of the behavior
Second time I’ve seen that article pop up in the last couple days. It’s got a lot right, but def not all of it. I grew up rural and stayed that way for most of my life, and on thing I think that was left out (or I missed it) is the cultural momentum and good old fashioned peer pressure. Everyone around you behaves in a certain way, you will behave the same way or you don’t fit in. When there’s no escape from your situation it’s not good to buck the system.
It also doesn’t explain the unwillingness to accept that the choices they make at the voting booth work against them other than flailing wildly in anger and voting with their middle fingers.
There’s plenty of movie and TV tropes that still push the simple “country wisdom” way of thinking that mock city dwellers by reductionist simplicity and “git’er dun” vs the overcomplicated and often shifty city slicker trying to upend rural life. Politically and socially that way of thought is still held up as some kind of ideal, unfortunately the result is “don’t actually think about what’s happening, reject nuance” instead of “you’re overcomplicating a situation”, the latter of which rarely happens in political solutions because it deals with lots of different people or rules.
Anyway. The article is interesting, but it’s got some gaps.
The article focuses on a "culture war" when in reality the reason rural communities are so fucked are class and economic issues. There's no funding for bumfuck America, once the "elites" start funding outreach programs that aren't tied to the church you'll see a lot of the christian right go away. But nobody wants to do that because culture war benefits the landed gentry and upper class elites.
I didn't have running water until I was 5 and no water heater till I was 11. The reason was booze and pills, there are still kids out there growing up how I grew up. And they'll continue to, because the only outreach programs out there are funded and run by the church and they don't help out drug addicted single moms.
Harm reduction programs, funded by taxes and managed at the federal level so there's no local political fuckery. That's the only way forward for rural America.
I've def gotten much more in the habit of reading the fucking articles since i left reddit. Glad i did! That was an interesting one, thanks for sharing!
I mean, yes and no. It's not as if those who vote for Donald trump aren't people worthy of empathy... But when a helping hand is offered and refused, what then? Can't have my kids getting a few lunch when those "other" kids get one too. Sorry, my empathy died up
Moreover, the "latent" racism was exacerbated by feelings of geographic and political isolation, legitimate or otherwise.