I imagine a lot of the stupid people who voted for right wing policies, and are then hurt by them, won’t connect those dots
Part of being stupid is the inability to look at facts and draw a reasonable conclusion.
Someone might look at “we cut funding for the town, and now the library sucks” and realize there’s a connection. An idiot might instead say “it’s the black people’s fault”
I really want to drive that home. Some people are stupid. They look at the world and draw bad conclusions. I don’t know how to fix that.
It already is. For instance, the majority of rural texas’s access to natal care, cardiology, and a few other of the major medical practices is in the same rank as places in central america. It’s not just texas either.
It’s been hurting them a long long time. But they’ve got that crab mentality. They believe things can’t be better. But as long as they can make someone hurt worse than they believe they are. They’re happy.
It doesn’t directly state it, but religion has a system of rules behind it, and rigid rules are themselves attractive to a certain authoritarian mindset. Doesn’t matter if they make sense; the rules are an end unto themselves.
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I imagine a lot of the stupid people who voted for right wing policies, and are then hurt by them, won’t connect those dots
Part of being stupid is the inability to look at facts and draw a reasonable conclusion.
Someone might look at “we cut funding for the town, and now the library sucks” and realize there’s a connection. An idiot might instead say “it’s the black people’s fault”
I really want to drive that home. Some people are stupid. They look at the world and draw bad conclusions. I don’t know how to fix that.
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You say that as if they aren’t taking the rest of us down with them.
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Well lead did a pretty big number on a certain generation that has been in power for quite some time, and you actually can’t fix that.
It already is. For instance, the majority of rural texas’s access to natal care, cardiology, and a few other of the major medical practices is in the same rank as places in central america. It’s not just texas either.
It’s been hurting them a long long time. But they’ve got that crab mentality. They believe things can’t be better. But as long as they can make someone hurt worse than they believe they are. They’re happy.
Facts. Never doubt these peoples ability to withstand suffering, as long as it makes it worse for the ‘other’.
It’s sublime and sad and sadistic at the same time. They’ll cut off their own nose to spite your face.
I’ve been unable to find where in the bible this attitude stems from other than a misattributed ‘trials and tribulations’ vibe.
It doesn’t directly state it, but religion has a system of rules behind it, and rigid rules are themselves attractive to a certain authoritarian mindset. Doesn’t matter if they make sense; the rules are an end unto themselves.
That same mindset tends to not apply that to themselves either, being quick to abandon all norms, decorum or decency to attain or retain power.
And then the historical editing comes down heavy handed
He who controls the present controls the past