Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans

• DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But… Trump is the archetypical New York slick rural America surely despise. So what gives?

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    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cognitive dissonance

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s true, I wonder where that came from.

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m right there with ya. I can’t wrap my head around it either

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do remember reading that. I have mixed feelings. I can excuse the first time the second time though… that’s harder.

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