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In reply to the discussion: Rural living. [View all]LonePirate
(13,437 posts)Under your belief, they know the cause of their ills. If so, why do they still continue to empower the party that makes them ill. That makes them knowledgeable and masochists.
I think most of them are too stupid to connect the dots between their ills and the local, state, congressional and now presidential Republicans they continue to vote for decade after decade who actually cause those ills.
Instead of asking them why they don't vote for Democrats, we need to ask them how their lives have improved by constantly voting for Republicans. The answer to that question will either be crickets or bullshit like they aren't going to take away my guns or they don't give my tax dollars to black people. How fucked up is to prioritize owning a gun or racism over having a job or health care or good schools? We cannot reason with people like this and we should not even try. We need to focus our efforts on reasonable suburban and urban voters who actually give a damn about the important things in life. Let rural Americans live out their Republican fantasies that are causing them so much hardship. We can't help people who refuse to help themselves.