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White Rural Trump Supporters Are a Threat to Democracy (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the popular imagination of many Americans, particularly those on the left side of the political spectrum, the typical MAGA supporter is a rural resident who hates Black and Brown people, loathes liberals, loves gods and guns, believes in myriad conspiracy theories, has little faith in democracy, and is willing to use violence to achieve their goals, as thousands did on Jan. 6.

According to a new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, these aren’t hurtful, elitist stereotypes by Acela Corridor denizens and bubble-dwelling liberals… they’re facts.

The authors, Tom Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman, a former columnist at The Washington Post, persuasively argue that most of the negative stereotypes liberals hold about rural Americans are actually true.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Get fucked. These people are products of poverty and the system that is designed to fail them.

This is just Democrat/Liberal PMC propaganda to help them feel better about their abandonment of the working class people of America for the benefit of their donor class.

Then they have a shocked Pikachu face when the people they left to stagnate and rot, turn out to be the shitty products of their environment aka the neoliberal hellscape of modern day America.

And now that they are shitty people, we can just forget all about how we got here, and put all the blame on them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I fully agree with you here that we're not having a conversation about what produces these people. I have parents that are quite terrible people, but I can see what made them that way. They've watched their savings and pensions evaporate and their job opportunities dwindle. They feel strongly that the government doesn't support their interests and share the feeling that most Americans have that the system isn't working. They don't feel represented.

Supporting Trump and other ridiculous conservative positions is their way of lashing out. It's not a productive response, but I feel that this disenfranchisement is a major driver that creates these people. They are Americans too, and we should be asking what we can do to build unity and improve America for everyone.

Yes, they are still responsible for their actions. However, I think that it's equally bad to ignore the factors that are producing these people in mass. I prefer to view these people as misinformed children who rather hurt others than fix problems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supporting Trump and other ridiculous conservative positions is their way of lashing out.

Worshipping the personification of the system that fucked them over is the stupidest reaction possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

loves gods and guns

Ok, I was well aware of the gun fetishism, but I gotta say that the polytheism is very surprising!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The most generous interpretation of Christianity is that it's monotheish. The Doctrine of the Trinity is like crypto: you can't understand it unless you believe in it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm always amazed that a bunch of redneck, Southern, city haters decided that a rich, Manhattan developer was one of them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like they’ve never seen a Pace Picante Sauce commercial before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man that unlocked a memory from my youth...

.....get a rope

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They simply deny everything you present to them. Facts do not matter. They are literally living in their own imagination and refuse to accept reality. It is time to reopen the mental institutions and throw them back in, along with the ACLU clowns who let them out to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)