slow clap Turns out that they're not all illiterate, so I guess a belated congratulations on their achievement of 8th grade reading comprehension is in order?
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I think this is a very important bit:
When we say they’re voting against their interests, I think we have to be very clear. I don’t think when they vote for somebody like Trump, or George W. Bush for that matter or Mitt Romney, they’re voting against many of their social and cultural interests. They may simply apply greater salience or weight to that than they do their ability to cover their health care costs or their ability to limit their co-pays and out-of-pocket expenses or their tax rates or their local industries.
Definitely important for us to understand and also just insane that that's probably the right conclusion too. They care more about their culture war issues than they do about their health care etc., that is at least until the moment someone comes for them. It's such a depressing failure of imagination that such a wide swath of the voting public fails to realize how bad it could get for them until it actually does.
Also, there was a part of the article that talked about the "us (rural) vs them (city)" mentality. We need to start pointing out that there are a shit ton of rural folk in the city. Cities are our true melting pot and why they're usually very liberal. They are surrounded by the "thems" in the rural boogie man scenario. The city people work with them, talk to them, see them on the street and they are human also.
The covid portion is going to stick with me awhile too. The rural areas should have had the least amount of deaths during covid and I think that was what Trump was counting on. They aren't on mass transit and don't have to see their neighbor if they don't choose too. They had a natural social distancing. But they were 3 to 4x the death rate. The lack of interaction makes them more racist and that racism made them die more. It's a crazy way to look at it.
Aaaaaand scamer get scammed.
"This was supposed to happen to them, not me!"
Not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.