anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality
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This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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No notes. None. You hit this out of the park, friend, and people pay me money irl to understand this kind of stuff 💜
The Universe has boundaries...
Human stupidity has no boundaries.
None at all...
Centrist dipshits: “surely there must be some deeper story at play here.”
The stubborn resistance to change or anything/anyone new or different is unbelievable.
Education poor. Low self esteem. On medication. No sense of efficacy, things happen to them.
And they are tired, & angry that things happen to them.
They are easy targets for the division propaganda .
I visited the Build Back Better website to see what it was bringing to this locality and it was all water/sewage infrastructure...
There is no populace with unified opinion on anything ever in
There is no populace with unified opinion on anything ever
When I began confronting gun culture, I was shocked-floored at the level of victim mentality, unlike anything I could have imagined.
Germane bc bigotry, rural and guns intersect and arguably to the purest, most doctrinaire degree. Because... "real Americans", "Heartland" mythology.
https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/
They'd be down to NUKE THE WHALES if they got to pull the trigger - and all the more so if it triggered people.
Power.
They want a feeling of power.
They will support whoever gives them a feeling of power.
https://bsky.app/profile/homesickmontanan.bsky.social/post/3ln6zx4viqk2h
So, these are the folks who live in MTG's district. She went to high school here.The teenagers & younger adults in this video are in their 50's to 80's now. Based on who they keep electing , their outlook hasn't changed much. They weren't protesting the "elitist left"
The follow-up sentence is the truth :
“they just don’t want it handed to anyone else at their expense”
Methinks they’re more driven by the latter rather than the former
they are part of the problem. if you dont see it, you dont want to.
They don't even KNOW the other options. I grew up in a town - a village or even a hamlet, really - on the highway between Lafayette and Logan's port in Indiana.
It had a post office, a single church and one little shop you could buy stuff like bread or milk in.
I joined the air force in 1988, stationed in England...and I never left.
In a small town now. No red lights. Horseback riding city wide. Lots of dirt roads, and about 75 people. People here are blue,
I’m not sure at times how I turned out the way I did, but travel and college didn’t hurt. Not internationally travel savvy, but at least out of the sticks.
What I don't get is how it defies "christian" values, which I'm certain the bulk of them claim to embrace.
Full disclosure: Raised in a half Catholic, half LDS family.
(I know, I know... that explains a lot, right?)
Their subsistence life must be subsidized by federal programs:
But here's the thing about white rural America, at least outside the South, and certainly in the Upper Midwest, my native region: They've been receptive to @sanders.senate.gov's structural-economic-progressive message since IOWA, spring '15.
I would move. Americans can freely go where the money is.
There is always another place that has the money
Small town folk known for MOYB? No.
They voted for revenge and punishment. Some want my husband and I to be forcibly divorced - and for what? To take revenge for being looked down at? For being _disagreed_ with? Grow up already
But damn it, those colored people better not get it.
https://bsky.app/profile/annenotation.bsky.social/post/3ln6q4jgb222m
It's white America that was scared shitless of losing their privilege and voted race. The overwhelming majority of white men and majority of white women voted Trump.
Let me hear about the millions of people who want things to get better and also want that for others too.
I've seen these people painted as the /real/ Americans my entire life. Let's hear about someone else.
I have been to Hyndman. There’s not an actual town or anything. It’s a bunch of people who think they don’t need any government.
But people who want to be smug & superior and also mad & victimized? That irks me.
Wyoming has a population of 600k people. For the entire STATE. Denver alone has 700k people, yet Wyoming has more representation
Cell phone towers: just got one and it doesn’t work well.
High speed internet: nope
Jobs: none.
Population: leaving as soon as they turn 18.
Will someone who is good at governing help, my town is dying.
Dump is their god because he’s a white supremacist, hires white supremacists, promotes white supremacist culture, and pushes white supremacist policy. Period.
And they still wonder why I fled and never went back.
I was stunned to find out that Catholics were not deemed to be “Christian” by a non-trivial segment of the population. 😧
I married a wonderful Jewish boy. Screw them all.
My mother was born in Greece, Greek Orthodox. Her father brought her here aged 2 in 1915. I guess that wasn’t “American enough” for them.
It wasn’t good enough.
When Daddy tried to join the Odd Fellows, sponsored by a member in very good standing AND the town plumber, someone
I mean, seriously? Those folks think the Pope is the Anti-Christ. 😒
It was all so stupid, but now we are supposed to care about small town “lifestyles “? No thanks
Whose fault is that, really?
Don’t tell me for a second they don’t resent “city folk” and ridicule diversity
I lived in one of those communities for 16 yrs. The fact
And what do $Billionaire propagandists (Murdoch, MAGA/Musk/Bezos) do? Lie and disenfranchise communities of color, while giving a "voice" to the rural they oppress?
Exploiting impoverished whites to continue oppression of POC & control of masses.
Renewable Energy jobs…no, none of that woke climate crap here
Good public schools…to woke
Cheaper health care…to woke
And what “lifestyle” are they clinging too? Riding your ATV to suck down Coors does not a culture make
80%+ of us live in a metropolitan statistical area.
Nowheresville didn’t through the election to Trump. It was low info suburban voters who heard “I’ll fix eggs” and voted for the orange turd
He should’ve shown up with a boyfriend and stuck his head into one of the nonstop hate churches.
If things keep getting worse, but you keep voting for the same party, is that the whole world's fault?
At *some* point the finger points back to oneself.
Seems minimized but then social media is not a great venue for nuance or subtlety.
To me it seems quite the privilege to live a life free from the arcs of history.
But god do they love the ‘these poor rurals would never be like this if you had been nicer to them’ explanations
Tiresome
Their situation isn't a good one, but I can only feel so much when they made it worse.
Why have both urban and rural Americans forgotten that?
I think the common denominator here is “rural Americans”.
Then you go as an adult & are shocked at the deeply foreign sight of friendly ppl riding bikes....
"I suppose it's okay for them to.. exist... but how DARE they deign to show their faces in public"
Very awful worldview
It’s frustrating
I was one of them myself, so it's not *impossible*, but only a unique confluence of circumstances after my college years led me out... & I was always an odd one out even before.
The rooted ones are not going to be pulled up.
“we want the government to preserve our dying communities but we DO NOT want welfare, programs or new ideas.”
Rs take credit for these things after trying to take them away.