Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans
Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62905572
Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base
I've never understood that. Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal billionaire? It seems like the very definition of self-harm to me.
I think it has to do with them being "villified" as backwards hicks in the media, and no doubt by many a city dweller. It gets people defensive, and there may also be a traditional aspect that hasn't been revised. Just my thoughts on it though
The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.
Also a lot of rural Americans see city dwellers as the enemy, I grew up with a dad that thought that way.
Yeah, the "hold my beer" theory of voter reaction. I get it. What I don't understand is, even if I desperately wanted to do the inverse of what annoying dems wanted me to do, I wouldn't be ready to objectively hurt myself and my family just to piss them off.
You are really going to like this:
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
Or, the original title: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Written in 2016, still perfectly on point.
Why would honest, hard-working Americans root for a convicted criminal
Stupid. The answer is stupid.
Because they were raised to vote Republican no matter what.
Fox News
Hey, that asshole who's never worked a day in his life because he had a rich daddy and cheats on his taxes seems like a really trustworthy guy. What I like the most about him is the fact that he would never want to have a beer with me, and if he somehow did, it would be the most painful experience in my life. He really gets me!
Education correlates with willingness to vote for Democrats and progressives.
Conservative news stations like the Murdoch's networks dominate cable news and are very high ranking on Sattelite. Last few years many local broadcast stations were also bought out by conservatives.
Another nail in the coffin is fossil fuels. Coal and Oil are the lifebloods of some regions like the Bakken Shelf of North Dakota. They're afraid of the environmental policies.
Finally, Religion. Evangelicals and other anti-abortion christian denominations dominate small towns.
It's a coalition of bad ideas.
Religion. Republicans have tied themselves to religion so hard that anyone devoted to a Christian god will vote for any Republican. Doesn't matter who.
The isolation leads to a lack of news. A lot of information is coming from church groups. People are told bad things are coming and they latch on to it.
"Now it's affecting us."
Fucking scum.
gee maybe they realized that a billionaire who is sleeping with playboy models and never going anywhere without a private jet is not the real people's man he claims to be.
Doubtful. That would require them having any actual knowledge of what is going on, or even caring about it. If anything it is because something he enacted finally personally affected themselves.
Why?
He's doing exactly what he said he would do. The results are exactly what the Dems said they would be.
Tell you what, if Trump was the "being pissed off at being dismissed as stupid" vote it's not playing out too well.
I guess US leftists in the "they're both the same" camp and US right wingers in the "he just says things" camp have made that horseshoe a donut.
But a new PBS/NPR/Marist poll, conducted between April 21 and 23 among 1,439 adults, shows that Trump's support among rural voters is declining.
The true reason PBS/NPR are getting defunded
Lmao and it hasn't even affected store shelves for a few more weeks.
Glad to hear it.
Moron cunts.
