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because the system they exist in keeps them in the dark, and is programming them to be fanatically terrified of being woken up
Exactly
Most rural "middle class" voters that fuel Red states are people who've been failed by the education system in one way or another, and distrust authority because of it. But they lack the media literacy to make distrust of authority positive. Instead, they are easily manipulated by crucial social figureheads.
"I distrust all authority except the ones that lie to me and make me feel good!"
Because they're made to believe that they're the underdog and so is the media they consume.
#1 news channel, #1 most viewed show Sean Hannity: "the main stream media are all liars!"
"Main stream" as if they aren't the most popular show...
Helps that the party hated the same groups they do which is very important, and has God by their side. Might not agree with everything, but God is the one pillar of belief they will stand by no matter how much everyone suffers.
A group the church promotes is the holy one. You wouldn't go against God would you just because those dirty heathens offer some enticing programs would you? That's a road straight to hell.
Do they feel good though? Or are they in a perpetual state of fear and believe that there is nothing else out there but a zero sum game where everybody is out there to win at their loss?
The latter i think
They also live in areas with cable monopolies and no fiber alternative. You wouldn’t believe how aggressively the right-wing ads hammer these people every 15 minutes.
Not even gonna mention the radio, my god. I work construction, there are rules about what's allowed on a jobsjte. Usually I'm on the side of "I don't wanna hear your radio and you don't wanna hear mine" because JAYSUS CHRIST the shit mfers like Jon Boy & Billy just casually throw out is atrocious
The radio gets worse the deeper you get into BFE, because often the only reliable radio stations you'll get out there are all AM talk radio stations that have been thoroughly bought out by Murdoch et al.
Are you counting Putin's psyops programs on social media as right wing too?
Why wouldn't you?
I've always found it so ironic that the dipshits that let Faux "News" and hate radio take a dump in their skull every day, all day long, will go on and on about "the media".
Me: "You mean the media you cannot tear yourself away from? The media that gives you your every thought? Do you really not see that your chosen outlets are also, by DEFINITION....'the media'?"
It's as if these people were to sit there talking about "the soda industry" or "the sneaker industry", while intending those comments to be directed at only a subset of those industries, while being cult-like adherents to the rest of it.
education system in red states in intentionally trashed by the gop to keep them thinking that way. in blue states its just neglected/underfunded in some areas. of thousands of people at my HS, the HS made it look like only a small handful are going to succeed in life and basically rubbing in the rest of student bodies face, "look at them and look at you, what do you have to show for it" everyone in the audience rolled thier eyes when they "paraded the high gpa earners, we know were being very condescending.
Woken up? Are you talking about the woke mind virus, you dirty infected communist?
If they choose ignorance, that is on them.
we're at a hinge point. we don't have the numbers on the side of sanity to combat the fascists without waking up most of the sleepwalkers. i recommend everyone try to connect with the people around them and talk about what's really going on
I think many have absolutely zero chance of waking up unless it personally affects themselves or possibly someone they actually care about (children, spouses).
People talk about empathy circles. In my experience, some conservatives seem to pretty much have one person in that circle - themselves. Many at least have their children in there, you'd hope, followed by their siblings/parents, ideally, their spouse.
Honestly, I think so much of politics really comes down that...liberals tend to have a much broader reach in their empathy circle...which probably explains why you see higher numbers of ethical veg*ns among the left, for example - broader empathy circle.
Point to where the choice is? Where in the chain of their disinformation filled lives are they given the chance to choose? They're villains and victims.
They could have noticed his constant lying during his first term.
They could notice that all the shit they say on the conservative propaganda that they are able to directly observe is false. They don't even need to know it is all bullshit, there are so many examples of Trump and conservatives saying something and then actively doing the opposite.
Even rural dipshits have opportunities to question the propaganda. Yes, people regularly fall for propaganda, but that doesn't give them a free pass when it requires them to ignore reality to fall for it.
These are all things that rely on a level of awareness and introspection that these people do not have and that's 100% by design. Very few of them can ever break free from the programming they've endured for they entirety of their lives and the few that do are forever broken trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance of everyday life.
You can't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree.
People aren't fish and I'm going to judge the shit out of people who can't make basic logical connections like 'immigrants, minorities, and women are also people' and 'maybe I shouldn't vote for the people who have repeatedly demonstrated they are lying liars'.
Well said.
Nail on the head answer.