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God people in rural communities are so stupid when they vote. I live in a very lopsided state. Just for ease of understanding, about 80% of the state is rural, but also 80% of the people live in the cities. Rural folks often forget just how many more people live in cities.
So they get resentful and say "why are MAH tax dollars going to all them city folks"! I've had this talk so many times with them, why should they pay (like pennies or their salary) to my city improvements just because they're state taxes?
Well, rural guy, because in actuality "us city folk" subsidize all of the rural state. They think they're paying for our stuff but turns out density is way cheaper and way more economically viable than rural. So we subsidize them all the time. I always remind them who do they think pays for the roads, the infrastructure, their state parks? It's not them and their low tax income. Their life depends on the city people
And then they vote to hurt us by cutting programs... And forget that we were paying for them to be on those programs.
"I love the poorly educated"- TRUMP and ever GOP ever.
As LBJ famously stated back in the 60's to his then-press secretary Bill Moyers: "If you can convince the lowest white man, that he's better than the best black man, he won't notice that your picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll open his pocket for you.."
This is exactly the classism couched in racism that took our erstwile Mr. Rural for a ride. All them "blacks" on welfare taking their tax dollars.. (because the unspoken bit is, ONLY blacks and minorities and uppity unwed women that breed like rabbits - the welfare "queens" don'tcha know.. are on welfare..)
Every goddamn decade these poorly educated idiots fall for it.
Their only connection to the outside world used to be newspapers, then radio and television, now it's the internet. This makes them extremely vulnerable to disinformation.
I can't count the number of times I've been lectured by some yokel on how the city I've lived my entire life in is actually a warzone with shaira law.
mostly fox news for conservative milleneals and older, and now with NEWSMAX/OAN right wing grifters, and consistent convincing them into the manosphere.
Same! They're absolutely terrified of my city and to me it's like, what the place where I walked to get my bagel this morning?
its a hellhole and fire, says fox pundits. in hindsight, the homeless problems, drug addicts are brought on by the gop truncating these 2 groups to liberal cities, its not by accident you see an increase every few years, they are being bussed or given a ticket here. MSM/fox will never report on it, because it just makes the gop states look bad.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.
There is a grain of truth in that rural areas get worse government service. Power outages last for longer, often they don't even have sewer hookups and have to maintain septic systems, roads are maintained at a lower level, etc. They really do get less benefit (in outcome terms) than city folk.
I think @Greddan@feddit.org hit on the information environment as the reason they can't see that that lower service level comes at a way, way higher monetary cost. Our information aggregators are in the business of making money from engagement, and telling people things they want to hear that sound true is the most effective engagement tool. I don't see the problem getting any better unless we figure out a better information model.
It is true, and I counter that with if you choose to live far away from people then you will be prioritized less. Things get fixed faster when there are more people affected, so when you choose to live miles away from anyone, when your power goes out it's not a high priority. I argue that that's their choice, and that it's deserved when it also costs much more for that one person to have power compared to thousands of people getting power for relatively the same cost in an urban area. Harsh I know, but that's how the money flows. They can always move to an urban area if they choose that services are more important than living rurally. More or less I agree with you, but I would tell them "you chose that".