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Trump Voters Trust Ex-President More Than Their Family and Friends: Poll
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One of the most frustrating aspects of this whole situation is listening to the absolute braindead takes I hear from the left. There's a lot of coastal elitism going around and it almost makes want to side with the magats just out of spite. I hear armchair socialists who have never done a day of physical labor in their lives making fun of farmers while stuffing their faces full of cheetos made from corn grown in Iowa. The few attempts I've seen to reach across the isle have been from the patronizing position of "we need to teach these hateful know-nothings in flyover country about their privilege and how to vote properly", instead of trying to learn why they believe what they do and how best to reach them.
I know that they're wrong. I know this because I was raised in a stable household by loving parents and was given a good education, but I get why they're angry. To be honest, I'm angry too.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I'm talking about years of cultural division and social neglect which have helped construct a funnel on top of the populist to fascist pipeline, into which an entire generation of young midwestern men are being dumped.
I know these people, they are my family and friends. Many of them started out as promising future-socialists. Then they looked to people who were supposed to be their allies in coastal blue states, and were immediately met with ridicule and derision. This provided a chance for fascists to swoop in and say "fuck those assholes, come roll with us and we'll change the system together". A lot of young men naïvely took the bait, and were radicalized in short order.
Christian fascism relies on a persecution complex, and you(collectively) have been helping feed into it.
You're not pointing at anything.
I'm from the fucking Midwest. Any "young man" that ate the fascist bullshit ate it because they were fed it from their friends and families. It wasn't the scapegoat "coastal elites" or the "globalists" or the "bankers," it was a learned behavior. My dad eats that shit and tried to feed it to me and my siblings. My grandpa eats that shit and fed it to my dad and aunt.
If you want to blame anyone, blame Fox for making it so easy for anyone to feast 24/7 on fascism talking points where you turn your brain off. My dad is a smart guy, no question about that. Lots of Republicans are! But that never stopped him or any of them from being a dumb piece of shit loser. Because he chooses to ignore the facts as they are presented to him. He chooses not to know what the 16th Amendment is. He chooses not to understand the costs of education. He chooses to believe the lies that are said to him when you give direct video or picture proof otherwise.
Because if he didn't, he'd be wrong. And I think he can't accept being that fundamentally wrong.
I agree that the coastal elitism is terrible, but please realize that that's not something "the left" does. It's something that liberals do. The Bernie-type left generally doesn't do that type of thing, and has suffered similar kinds of attacks from Clinton/Obama liberals for it (ex: being called "Bernie-bros"). They very much understand that racism and misogyny accusations are wielded as weapons by liberals when given the slightest opportunity. As far as I know, this has been an internal rift within "the left" that has severely hobbled it since the 60s/70s, promoting capitalist and elitist liberals instead.
Can I upvote this more than once??
This is very, very spot-on.
And the fact that someone here has downvoted you speaks volumes to the very point you are trying to make!
The Left is extremely exclusionary and in many ways has HELPED Trump more than almost anyone else. Yes he's a piece of shit. Yes he deserves to die in jail, but stop pushing groups away because eventually they could end up falling for MAGA propaganda. We are already seeing reports of how an alarming number of white male teens are joining right wing groups. What does the Left do? Make it worse by calling out bullshit like "white privilege" or calling them "incels" or simply "racist". These guys are just kids and they hear one side that is constantly degrading males and constantly blaming whites... well what the fuck do you think those teens are going to do? They are going to find a group that accepts them. It is so obviously and yet so infuriating how the Left can't see what they are doing.