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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62905572

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base

I've never understood that. Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal billionaire? It seems like the very definition of self-harm to me.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And rapist.

And coastal elite blue state born rich snob.

Things they're supposed to hate. But hey, he said he hated the same people they do and constantly spews vile rhetoric that they like, and that's all they needed to throw their support behind him.

These people are amoral. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] _core 3 points 2 weeks ago

Its 'eye-gor'

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think it has to do with them being "villified" as backwards hicks in the media, and no doubt by many a city dweller. It gets people defensive, and there may also be a traditional aspect that hasn't been revised. Just my thoughts on it though

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

But... Trump is the archetypical New York slick that rural America surely despises. So what gives?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Cognitive dissonance

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie pay for ruining American industry!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas

You underestimate how easy that is to do in a city.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's true, I wonder where that came from.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, the "hold my beer" theory of voter reaction. I get it. What I don't understand is, even if I desperately wanted to do the inverse of what annoying dems wanted me to do, I wouldn't be ready to objectively hurt myself and my family just to piss them off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm right there with ya. I can't wrap my head around it either

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are really going to like this:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about

Or, the original title: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

Written in 2016, still perfectly on point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I do remember reading that. I have mixed feelings. I can excuse the first time the second time though... that's harder.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Because they were raised to vote Republican no matter what.

[–] pelespirit 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, that asshole who's never worked a day in his life because he had a rich daddy and cheats on his taxes seems like a really trustworthy guy. What I like the most about him is the fact that he would never want to have a beer with me, and if he somehow did, it would be the most painful experience in my life. He really gets me!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Education correlates with willingness to vote for Democrats and progressives.

Conservative news stations like the Murdoch's networks dominate cable news and are very high ranking on Sattelite. Last few years many local broadcast stations were also bought out by conservatives.

Another nail in the coffin is fossil fuels. Coal and Oil are the lifebloods of some regions like the Bakken Shelf of North Dakota. They're afraid of the environmental policies.

Finally, Religion. Evangelicals and other anti-abortion christian denominations dominate small towns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's a coalition of bad ideas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal

Stupid. The answer is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Religion. Republicans have tied themselves to religion so hard that anyone devoted to a Christian god will vote for any Republican. Doesn't matter who.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The isolation leads to a lack of news. A lot of information is coming from church groups. People are told bad things are coming and they latch on to it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

"Now it's affecting us."

Fucking scum.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Why?

He's doing exactly what he said he would do. The results are exactly what the Dems said they would be.

Tell you what, if Trump was the "being pissed off at being dismissed as stupid" vote it's not playing out too well.

I guess US leftists in the "they're both the same" camp and US right wingers in the "he just says things" camp have made that horseshoe a donut.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

gee maybe they realized that a billionaire who is sleeping with playboy models and never going anywhere without a private jet is not the real people's man he claims to be.

[–] yata 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Doubtful. That would require them having any actual knowledge of what is going on, or even caring about it. If anything it is because something he enacted finally personally affected themselves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

But a new PBS/NPR/Marist poll, conducted between April 21 and 23 among 1,439 adults, shows that Trump's support among rural voters is declining.

The true reason PBS/NPR are getting defunded

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Glad to hear it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao and it hasn't even affected store shelves for a few more weeks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Moron cunts.