A coworker of mine was dangerously close to connecting some of the dots yesterday.
He started complaining about how things are getting more expensive, and how the company we work for has started buying things from overseas because even with tariffs it’s cheaper than buying American made, and then came the stunning part.
He said “They say they have to raise prices because of terrorists or some shit, but how do WE know if that’s true? How do we know there ARE any terrorists and it’s not just all bullshit made up by politicians and the news to justify raising prices so they can get rich.”
And then he took a hard right turn and added that “all those goddamn r****d democrats in congress” are to blame.
So close.
Fox News brain kicked in
The talking points are integrated in their personality.
Red states sure do love all those taxes being paid out by those awful cities, though … they don’t wanna damage -that- part!
Honestly, I’m feeling like everyday, the US is closer to a civil war 2.0. I feel like the Reps should separate already so we can label them as terrorists and traitors.
I think it more comes down to the fact that if you live in a rural area, you have to have a very independent and individualistic mindset because you are so far away from things that you have to do most things yourself. This leads to a less collectivist mindset. Your main hub of society tends to be the nearest church, which is where you see the other people living nearby. Or maybe the bass pro shop or waffle house if you are near enough to one of those.
When you live in a city, you are about as deep in society as you can get, and you can quickly understand why we need to help each other because you see the results of not doing that all around you (mental illness, drug addicition, homelessness, etc.).
It’s not that one is right and the other wrong, it’s that they are life viewed from fundamentally different perspectives and needs.
And yet church is a collectivist society. Even says so in the Gospels and when done properly, churches take care of each other in their societies.
The conservatives don’t want to clean up. They just want to drag everyone down into their own slop.
Almost like people who don’t want the government breathing down their necks don’t live in places that are government controlled. As someone who’s lived in NJ all my life, it’s the cities that are the disease. The economy and society in cities isn’t anything we should be proud of.
I’m guessing you enjoy drinking clean water and breathing non-toxic air on a daily basis, no? How do you think that happened?
Almost like the people who don’t want government breathing down their necks are wholly incapable of actually supporting themselves without leeching off better, more functional economies. Almost like parasites.
In cities, economies actually exist. In cities, society is just a reflection of human nature and has fuck-all to do with government.
you don’t have to live in cities if you don’t want to. just move to the countryside and check whether things are better there.
done, and much happier here.
