You can’t fix stupid. You can only hope their kids are less stupid as you wait for them to die from stupid.
Bored_guy_in_dc on
Well, obviously critical thinking is not a requirement to live in that red corner of Georgia.
Pirvan on
I’ll take ‘voting against own interests’ for $200, Alex
DryStatistician7055 on
Hate is, apparently more important to them than a good paying job.
dhatfield1818 on
Their loyalty to tRump runs skin (color) deep.
CalRipkenForCommish on
More often than not, it comes down to education. We need a country where critical thinking is taught everywhere, where the scientific method is a foundation and not a theory. Georgia, by and large, isn’t there yet. And it is well documented that the gop tries to attack education at every level, tries to demean and insult education and push conspiracies. Until and unless these people are allowed to erode rational and free thought, democracy will struggle all the more.
Dapper-Percentage-64 on
During a Trump speech a week ago his crowd hardly booed the Fed rate cut ? Don’t want lower interest rates on credit I guess?
deJuice_sc on
This particular red corner of Georgia has some weird demographics when compared to the rest of the state:
– lower educational attainment
– lower median income
– younger median age
– higher poverty rate
– significantly higher property crime rate
weird.
Sidwill on
Forget jobs, forget their kids education, forget SS. All you need to do is tell them you hate the same people they hate.
thereal-quaid on
Southerners are such pieces of shit on average. For nearly 200 years they’ve been causing nothing but issues for this country.
BeMoreKnope on
The thing to remember about Trump supporters is that the vast majority of them are morons.
LemonHerb on
Put one of those I did that stickers next to their town. Then they’ll understand
OldManPip5 on
Trump would take a wrecking ball to all those jobs. Maybe explain that to them.
senatorbolton on
Trump could literally walk around town slapping these people and they’d admire his confidence.
WhatAJSaid on
This is incredibly sad. That people can get retrained, have their local economy bright back to life, and still fight for a candidate who would not only not have done anything for them if he was in office but will reverse what’s happening if he gets back there. In the words of Mr. T “I pity the fool”.
oloughlin3 on
I hope and pray Trump shuts down the plant if he wins. These people are actual morons. They need to learn the repercussions of their idiotic decisions.
dominantspecies on
If you know a MAGAt, you know a moron.
ShootinAllMyChisolm on
The poison pill.
Trump has to kill a green energy project to out these people out of work.
browndog03 on
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the [south]. You know… morons.
Walterkovacs1985 on
Trump getting blue collar workers has never made sense. Dude literally screws over workers. Such a cult of personality.
DVSghost on
Cults gonna cult.
JoeB- on
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
PlasticPomPoms on
Because Biden doesn’t have a 24/7 propaganda channel feeding those people lies.
purdue_fan on
just like all these florida republicans every october remembering that the federal government is a good thing when their home is destroyed by a hurricane
monicarp on
This is why I hate a statement I hear often from both rural people and progressives at large – that if Democrats would just actually do things to appeal to rural voters, they’d do better.
No, that’s clearly not true. Democrats already DO appeal to rural voters with their policies. And rural voters constantly punish them for it anyway.
I’m from rural Upstate NY. Ppl have constant complaints about statewide Democratic policies while also completely ignoring how much their lives would be worse under Republican control. People in my area have a higher min wage, lower (bracketed) income taxes, strong state-level child tax and earned income credits, better access to food stamps and WIC, and extremely importantly… expanded Medicaid. All things that disproportionately help rural NYers. Literally over HALF of the families in my hometown benefit from all of these policies because we live in a blue state, yet they still vote strongly red and complain about NYC (which most have never even been to). Where do you think the tax dollars for your Medicaid is coming from? Because it’s not coming from any of the North Country counties.
Edit: I just want to add for anyone not from NY who might recognize this name… This is the federal House District currently held by Elise Stefanik. She wins elections here by a safe margin.
Lanolin_The_Sheep on
We are actually fucking doomed if we do not fix education/critical thinking. Humans do NOT come out right by default.
We are just animals. We are animals with an extreme capacity for learning, but there is nothing inate about any of the actual logic, knowledge, or decency. A human is just another scared apex predator surrounded by competitors without that.
99Yearstoosoon on
I live in the blue ridge mountains of North Georgia and I can tell you with certainty that the kids are on track to be just like their parents. Religious, gun loving, Republican and low educated. It’s a source of pride around here to not be like city people and stay exactly the same as the generation before.
Jack-Tar-Says on
I remember a story from back in 2016 where a lady in one of the poorest areas of Kentucky (or somewhere similar) was signing people up to the ACA and she spoke how it was giving people access to health care like never before.
But she and everyone they spoke to through her, was voting for Trump. The reporter told her that he was going to get rid of ACA but she didn’t know the difference between it and Obamacare. She and those around her were completely inept at understanding they were the same thing and that they’d be worse off.
Seem to be the same story again. Can’t fix stupid.
KaisarDragon on
And? Coal workers are still voting Trump because his promise to revive the mines might happen THIS time!
nopulsehere on
Actually just about all of the red states took the benefits from this! Just google any republican bragging about what their state is doing. Pretty sure that Texas has the largest solar farm in the states. But that’s their MO, break everything, then the democrats fix it with solid policies, bitch and complain till the next election and then all of a sudden everything is fixed? Buddy you haven’t even been sworn in? What exactly did you do to fix this? I’m a republican!
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You can’t fix stupid. You can only hope their kids are less stupid as you wait for them to die from stupid.
Well, obviously critical thinking is not a requirement to live in that red corner of Georgia.
I’ll take ‘voting against own interests’ for $200, Alex
Hate is, apparently more important to them than a good paying job.
Their loyalty to tRump runs skin (color) deep.
More often than not, it comes down to education. We need a country where critical thinking is taught everywhere, where the scientific method is a foundation and not a theory. Georgia, by and large, isn’t there yet. And it is well documented that the gop tries to attack education at every level, tries to demean and insult education and push conspiracies. Until and unless these people are allowed to erode rational and free thought, democracy will struggle all the more.
During a Trump speech a week ago his crowd hardly booed the Fed rate cut ? Don’t want lower interest rates on credit I guess?
This particular red corner of Georgia has some weird demographics when compared to the rest of the state:
– lower educational attainment
– lower median income
– younger median age
– higher poverty rate
– significantly higher property crime rate
weird.
Forget jobs, forget their kids education, forget SS. All you need to do is tell them you hate the same people they hate.
Southerners are such pieces of shit on average. For nearly 200 years they’ve been causing nothing but issues for this country.
The thing to remember about Trump supporters is that the vast majority of them are morons.
Put one of those I did that stickers next to their town. Then they’ll understand
Trump would take a wrecking ball to all those jobs. Maybe explain that to them.
Trump could literally walk around town slapping these people and they’d admire his confidence.
This is incredibly sad. That people can get retrained, have their local economy bright back to life, and still fight for a candidate who would not only not have done anything for them if he was in office but will reverse what’s happening if he gets back there. In the words of Mr. T “I pity the fool”.
I hope and pray Trump shuts down the plant if he wins. These people are actual morons. They need to learn the repercussions of their idiotic decisions.
If you know a MAGAt, you know a moron.
The poison pill.
Trump has to kill a green energy project to out these people out of work.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the [south]. You know… morons.
Trump getting blue collar workers has never made sense. Dude literally screws over workers. Such a cult of personality.
Cults gonna cult.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Because Biden doesn’t have a 24/7 propaganda channel feeding those people lies.
just like all these florida republicans every october remembering that the federal government is a good thing when their home is destroyed by a hurricane
This is why I hate a statement I hear often from both rural people and progressives at large – that if Democrats would just actually do things to appeal to rural voters, they’d do better.
No, that’s clearly not true. Democrats already DO appeal to rural voters with their policies. And rural voters constantly punish them for it anyway.
I’m from rural Upstate NY. Ppl have constant complaints about statewide Democratic policies while also completely ignoring how much their lives would be worse under Republican control. People in my area have a higher min wage, lower (bracketed) income taxes, strong state-level child tax and earned income credits, better access to food stamps and WIC, and extremely importantly… expanded Medicaid. All things that disproportionately help rural NYers. Literally over HALF of the families in my hometown benefit from all of these policies because we live in a blue state, yet they still vote strongly red and complain about NYC (which most have never even been to). Where do you think the tax dollars for your Medicaid is coming from? Because it’s not coming from any of the North Country counties.
Edit: I just want to add for anyone not from NY who might recognize this name… This is the federal House District currently held by Elise Stefanik. She wins elections here by a safe margin.
We are actually fucking doomed if we do not fix education/critical thinking. Humans do NOT come out right by default.
We are just animals. We are animals with an extreme capacity for learning, but there is nothing inate about any of the actual logic, knowledge, or decency. A human is just another scared apex predator surrounded by competitors without that.
I live in the blue ridge mountains of North Georgia and I can tell you with certainty that the kids are on track to be just like their parents. Religious, gun loving, Republican and low educated. It’s a source of pride around here to not be like city people and stay exactly the same as the generation before.
I remember a story from back in 2016 where a lady in one of the poorest areas of Kentucky (or somewhere similar) was signing people up to the ACA and she spoke how it was giving people access to health care like never before.
But she and everyone they spoke to through her, was voting for Trump. The reporter told her that he was going to get rid of ACA but she didn’t know the difference between it and Obamacare. She and those around her were completely inept at understanding they were the same thing and that they’d be worse off.
Seem to be the same story again. Can’t fix stupid.
And? Coal workers are still voting Trump because his promise to revive the mines might happen THIS time!
Actually just about all of the red states took the benefits from this! Just google any republican bragging about what their state is doing. Pretty sure that Texas has the largest solar farm in the states. But that’s their MO, break everything, then the democrats fix it with solid policies, bitch and complain till the next election and then all of a sudden everything is fixed? Buddy you haven’t even been sworn in? What exactly did you do to fix this? I’m a republican!
Because the south really is that fucking stupid.