• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Most people are. You vote based on your vulgar popular impulses, not based on some PhD level insight into market mechanics.

    It is very easy to get people to go against their own best interests with a sufficient degree of propaganda. And the volume of propaganda has been tilted towards fascism for (conservatively speaking) a decade.

    Wall to Wall “Immigrants from gangs affiliated with the CCP are doing a 9/11 every day to your jobs and your white women” coverage for most of a generation is going to shape public perception regardless of how High IQ the audience.

    Garbage in, garbage out.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Thank you.

      Rural people, by and large, aren’t stupider people -they just have different experiences with education than urban voters. These are human problems, organizational problems.

      It is true that when the People to Square Mile ratio tilts a certain way you’re less likely to encounter opposing viewpoints, which favors conservativism. But these are generalities, nothing more.

      I’m sick of seeing rural America get thrown under the bus by so many publications. A truly democratic America would see the breadbasket for what it is - the bell curve.

      But these GODDAMN FASCISTS have gotten so entrenched in conservative circles over the past century, making it more and more impossible for reasonable Satan-fearing blue-collar Anarchists like me to do our FUCKING JOBS and help them build STRUCTURES THAT WILL HELP THEM… sorry I get a little annoyed

      Where was i?