The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.
Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 months agoI think it has to do with them being “villified” as backwards hicks in the media, and no doubt by many a city dweller. It gets people defensive, and there may also be a traditional aspect that hasn’t been revised. Just my thoughts on it though
DrFistington@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its less that and “one side calls me the backbone of America and the other side calls me an idiot hick”
The vast majority of people are driven purely by feelings.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s true, I wonder where that came from.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
But… Trump is the archetypical New York slick rural America surely despise. So what gives?
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Cognitive dissonance
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Deregulation, making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas. Cutting social programs so that their taxes do not go to anything woke, only to subsidizing corporations and billionaires profits. Small government and tons of tariffs to make them commie <insert racist teen here> pay for ruining American industry!
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
making it easier for them to drive their barely running cars and trucks that drink oil faster than gas
You underestimate how easy that is to do in a city.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yeah, the “hold my beer” theory of voter reaction. I get it. What I don’t understand is, even if I desperately wanted to do the inverse of what annoying dems wanted me to do, I wouldn’t be ready to objectively hurt myself and my family just to piss them off.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m right there with ya. I can’t wrap my head around it either
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are really going to like this:
cracked.com/…/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-t…
Or, the original title: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Written in 2016, still perfectly on point.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I do remember reading that. I have mixed feelings. I can excuse the first time the second time though… that’s harder.