• ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world
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      I live in one of these towns, and all I can think of is “thoughts and prayers” as well. WNC voted for Trump because they liked the cruelty, and it will come back to bite them and the rest of us.

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        The problem is that they aren’t smart enough to put the facts together and will blame whoever faux tells them to.

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    Will be interesting to see how Faux “News” and other outlets craft a message to their marks about how this is “Biden’s economy” and poor donvict is only trying to fix things because he “was handed the worst economy ever”.

    I mean, you’d have to be a complete moron that wants to believe such bullshit, but then we are talking about the kinds of people that voted for donvict…

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    I say, this, after weighing the words carefully in my mind, and with a profound sense of empathy for what it means, but – good. Maybe most of the people in these areas are so deeply ingrained that they can’t tell right from left, but at some point when the pain is too much, at some point when the desperation and bitterness and anger is leading to no action and no results, at some point they will realize that their mayors who are Republican and their county representatives are Republican and their state legislators are Republican and their governors are Republican and their congressional representatives are Republican and their president is Republican. At some point there would be a break, hopefully, in their Great Wall of ignorance and stupidity for some light to shine through. And while I fervently agree with most of them on how much I hate the national Democratic Party and it’s neoliberal corporate subserviency, That’s something different has to come about for us to get somewhere out of this hell scape.

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      Most supporters of the Nazis went to the grave believing their cause was just. Whether it was on the battlefield, at the end of a firing squad, or decades later of old age.

      They let go of their aspirations and public support because they were forced to, at the end of a gun.

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      It would take a 5-10 year depression for enough of them to reach the point that it would make a meaningful difference. Seriously.

      Look at how it went last time. FDR and then his vice president created a 20-year presidential legacy following Hoover’s complete mismanagement of the Great Depression. After that came the 5-star general who defeated Hitler (who ran as a Republican in order to block an isolationist candidate farther on the right), then back to Democrats for another eight years—until giving black people equal rights was a bridge too far for Southern Democrats.

      Basically, Trump would need to destroy this country economically, and have that ruination take hold for many years, before real charge can happen.

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      At some point there would be a break, hopefully, in their Great Wall of ignorance and stupidity for some light to shine through.

      There won’t be. The media that they consume will just tell them that Democrats or Mexicans or Muslims or trans athletes are to blame for their problems, and they’ll believe it.

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        More importantly, they’ll want to believe it. They won’t want to think that they’ve been wrong for years or decades. It will always be someone else’s fault

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      That would require educating yourself and questioning the entire paradigm you have lived in your entire life. And this hypothetical awakening would only happen after being faced with the consequences of falling further into poverty. Big doubt it.

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      Hell yeah. My home value has gone up 50% since I bought it. Got tons of equity waiting for a big house outside of the city to get cheaper. Let’s paint the countryside blue.

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    Rural recessions generally mean people will go to the cities, and that’ll be fun because that means: crime’s going up!

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    Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.

    It’s getting hard to stay optimistic these days.