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liverbe@lemmy.world 1 year agoAt this point, I just feel bad for them. Our education system failed them. These “deranged” people you are talking about are our friends, coworkers, and family who have been misled by a system that was built based on slavery. Keep your masses uneducated, and you can do what you want with them.
Some of them woke up before the election (a friend of mine from Arkansas), some were killed by Covid (my coworker from Texas), and some will learn what the unintended consequences are of voting against their best interest (my aunt that used to work for the federal government in Ohio).
But deranged, they are not. However, I do think Hillary was right. Some of them are deplorable, but I don’t know any deplorables.
What’s deplorable is the two party system that encourages loyalty over reason. Both parties are sick, but in very different ways, and the right is having a severe episode right now.
The solution isn’t to try to convince everyone to vote for the lesser evil, but to show them how broken the system is and to demand an end to the two party system. That won’t fix everything, but it should at least give people a better way to express their preferences.
This is why I’m seeking public office as an Independent. There is no way to fix it except to do it ourselves.
I may do the same. I’ve considered running to oppose my State Legislature reps, who usually run unopposed.
Education is not a good defense when you weren’t given any different education than the rest. And it seems like an ideology that they choose even among those more educated and wealthier. This whole only poor uneducated fall for lies is misleading and passes off personal responsibility.
They are the ones who chose despite others not doing so. And even the worst people are capable of moments of kindness, but it doesn’t change who they are at their core and what they choose to believe when they don’t have to selectively filter themselves.
And feel bad for them all you want. It doesn’t change that people around the world are suffering because of their decisions that empowered the people in charge, since they believed they would be the exception.
Education systems across America are very different. Poor (including rural) districts have a very hard time getting decent funding and, therefore, good teachers.
I was fortunate to have a decent public education and parents who trusted the teachers. This is not the case across the board.
I just see excuses being made for grown up who are too old to be given the benefit of the doubt like they are toddlers.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I work blue collar. I know some.
liverbe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s your assessment? Lack of good education? Or something worse?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Peer pressure to conform, toxic masculinity, homophobia, dirty jokes and failure to grasp dark humor, society failing to train boys to mature into men, propaganda news, obsession with team sports, lack of good education, lack of mentorship, etc.