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To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer
(www.theguardian.com)
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I think you and I might be more closely aligned than we realize. I agree that there is nothing we can do now. The fascists have been too radicalized for too long. What irks me, and what pissed me off enough to write multiple walls of text yesterday, is the attitude I see from progressives that "these people are all just stupid and immoral, their beliefs and motivations are inherently evil so it doesn't matter what they think or why they think it, there's nothing we can do". Like, yeah, that may be the case now, but it wasn't always so. If the left had made more of an effort reach out to rural americans, say 30 years ago, before the mega churches and republican party had such a firm lock on the area, many of them could have become valuable allies. What we are seeing now is, in my opinion, the metastasization of a cultural disease that was left untreated. When people like myself tried to suggest that we do something though, the response was always the same "eh, fuck 'em, they're just a bunch of assholes, what could they possibly do other than bitch and moan?" Well, now we know.
That cracked article is nearly a decade out of date now, and I admit it's not the most helpful. I like to use it because it loosely illustrates the point I've been trying to make for years. Namely that what we're seeing now is not evil for the sake of evil, but the end result of a long process of alienation and radicalization of a group that was once firmly rooted on the side of democracy and, in some cases, leftism. Thanks for reading my word salad.
Well I have to agree. I think we're just lamenting different aspects of the same thing. I can't argue with the meat of what you are saying here.
Not at all, thank you for expounding!