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LOL. Fuuuuuck the farmers. Let the ground go back to wilderness.
That being said, it's not entirely their fault. Something like 80% of young people don't move farther than 100 miles from home. For the midwest.... 100 miles away is just more midwest. One of the biggest, emptiest landmasses in the entire world. Overwhelmingly white. Overwhelmingly undereducated. Overwhelmingly propagandized.
With "new" technologies like the internet, high speed trains, advances in agriculture... farming counties should be in a goddamn golden age. But they've always leaned republican, and that means they'll always be republican, because they're chronically underfunding infrastructure, education, and healthcare, and so they're chronically suffering but don't understand why.
They just know it's wrong, and it's always easier to blame somebody other than themselves.
Compound all of that with not meeting anyone new or seeing anything challenging to change their beliefs... and you have that 77%. Their horizons are far, but their world is small and self-contained.
They'll occasionally realize "oh, this is hurting us" but the truth is they have always been hurting. Pain isn't new to them. So it's very easy to convince them that temporary pain will be worth it in the end... even if nothing gets better.
Don't forget that if anyone from a small town goes and gets a formal education, comes back, and starts pointing out issues and ways to fix them, they get demonized and declared brainwashed by the LiBErAl eLiTe
That’s all true but it’s shocking how bad they are at judging character. Trump is such an obvious phony conman that it’s astounding that anyone over the age of 6 believes a word that comes out of his orange face. And he keeps fooling them over and over.
Exactly. It's not like there isn't decades of him being a racist, misogynistic asswipe. They chose to ignore that because he was going to hurt the people they don't like.
FYI, that costs money.