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In reply to the discussion: I'm seeing a bunch of posts and articles about "Hillbillies" & other rural whites... [View all]Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Darkest red Indiana.
The people surrounding me are not critical thinkers or free thinkers. They're afraid of change. They are highly religious. Jesus rules and no amount of logic will change their god-fearing minds. They will LITERALLY GIVE UP THEIR LIVES for a savior they believe exists.
But their piousness is bullshit. They voted for a bully: a rude, loud, boorish, pussy grabbing mocker of the disabled. Their vote for trump was based on selfishness (what can he do for me) and, as the OP stated, a desire to stick it to you and I... the godless (or more specifically, Jesus-less) queer-lovin' libtards and all others who don't think, look and act like they do.
Racism is everywhere. If you're a brown man standing on a street corner in my small rural town, you're a Mexican. If you're Indian and run the local gas station, you're a Muslim. If you're black... people literally talk about it as if they sighted an intruder in THEIR community.
The sheer ignorance is fucking incredible. These people love and are proud of who they are and what they represent. It is a communal psychosis. And reasoning and logic won't change it. For these people - like any addict forced to change their behavior - it has to be very personal and hit very hard. Still, like an addict... some will not change regardless.