Poor rural conservatives are often mocked for their voting habits, yet this ignores how bourgeois propaganda shapes their beliefs. Media, political elites, and corporate interests craft narratives that frame social and economic justice as threats to their way of life, redirecting legitimate grievances toward cultural and racial scapegoats.
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Poor rural conservatives are often mocked for their voting habits, yet this ignores how bourgeois propaganda shapes their beliefs. Media, political elites, and corporate interests craft narratives that frame social and economic justice as threats to their way of life, redirecting legitimate grievances toward cultural and racial scapegoats.
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I see the propaganda too. What’s their excuse?
Because of their history before widespread propaganda efforts. The southern strategy didn’t aim to convince people of racial animus, it exploited the racial animus already present within the population, or in the words of alabama governor george wallace
> You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about n**, and they stomped the floor.
I believe in personal responsibility and enjoy bullying morons
Because they aren’t victims and you don’t know their best interests better than they do.
I have two reasons.
They say that everyone no matter their circumstances, is personally responsible for their choices. No excuses.
They have absolutely no issues being casually cruel to everyone else.
You viewing them as victims of the people who validate their emotions will come across as condescending pity. They are men and want to be viewed as personally in control of their own thoughts and actions. Once you make them all victims to be pitied, you take away their agency and they will despise you for pointing that lack of agency out to them. Because, deep down, they also feel they have no choices in life or politics or their families or controlling their futures or America or anything. Conservative propaganda makes them feel that is all the fault of some other boogeyman and that they can get their self respect and agency back by voting for the party that will kill the boogeyman. Acknowledging they are actually creating, supporting, and becoming their own boogeyman will cause a full destruction of their world view. That is dangerous.
The propaganda isn’t that sophisticated, not bourgeois. Moron hate information.
It just reinforced their inability to think beyond the hate, so how are we to blame?
They were mildly racist/toned down, then Obama flared them up like fucking gonorrhea and they have since voted for trump at least twice.
Gonna be a fuck nah from me.
Lambast the shit out of those morons.
Which issues they vote on do you think are the result of propaganda efforts?
This makes it sound like they make a conscious decision to choose rejection of “social and economic justice” and staying poor, honestly…which–surprise–makes “poor rural conservatives” sound like white supremacy and making sure there are people underneath them on the social/economic hierarchy are more important to them than improving their lot in life along with people of color, women and the intersection of POC/women and their financial and social issues…which–surprise–leads to our calling them stuff like racist.
And people try to explain what’s really happening to them re: the “propaganda” and they just don’t care and still vote for white male supremacy, which intersects with voting for people who will keep them poor and without help from the federal government. Some are skeptical, as well, that everyone can be equal or equally helped, which makes sense. But they also keep seeing what happens when they elect Republicans and how they don’t want any of these programs that help the poor. Which goes back to the idea that what they care most about is making sure there are people underneath them. “Threats to their way of life,” as if their life is great. What’s great about it? Being white and privileged as such.
Because they’d rather live in shit and pull POC and liberals down to their level than move up themselves.
Do you not think it’s infantilizing to suggest that these people don’t know what they’re doing or don’t actually know what they want?
Because if they actually cared about solving their problems, Democrats would’ve had absolute control over all branches of the federal government, and overwhelming control over damn near every state, for several decades now.
Yet people keep voting for the party who actively announces their desire to destroy federal programs and letting people fend for themselves. I have no sympathy for people who keep voting in “leaders” who openly state how they’re gonna fuck over people’s lives and futures.
Stupidity is a choice, not a mental deficiency. Intelligent people decide to be stupid. Stupidity is a moral failure. It can’t be reasoned with. You can’t use logic or facts to defeat it. They made a conscious decision. They were not forced in any way.
Bourgeois propaganda? Dafuq? Are you serious?
The Democratic Party is the party of the Bourgeoisie. I wish we could persuade poor rural folks to vote for Dems.
At a certain point you have to stop blaming outside influences and take ownership of your own beliefs and decisions.
Probably because they hate the rest of us, are a boat anchor to progress, and prop up the worst candidates imaginable in spite of their own best interest and our warnings.
So yeah, that guy who rolls coal out of his immense Ram 3500 might be a victim of bourgeois, but fuck him for being an asshole.