How do we let ourselves become so easily divided from our very humanity?
I feel so lost. 😭
@quinnsentialOne Emotions are easily manipulated by those with something to gain. Turning us against each other is the best way those with massive amounts of money can keep us from focusing on coming together to make things better for the vast majority of us who are just trying to get by and have a good life rather than rule the world and be a billionaire
@EelGM It's true.
Information doesn't flow in rural places the same way it does in cities. And what does is drowned out so heavily. In the modern world you think information is equally available. It's not.
Democrat America is so disconnected from most of Republican America no wonder we are all being so easily manipulated to hate each other.
It just feels hopeless.
@quinnsentialOne one issue that’s really important to both sides could bring a few people together if that happens cracks in the hate driving people apart can occur as real connections are made between people
@EelGM This has been half my posts in CoSo since I got here.
@quinnsentialOne completely understandable it’s a maddening position to be in, my girlfriend’s eldest son’s wife’s family are all MAGA they live in a town of 2,600 we go over often
@EelGM I'm ex-MAGA. Recently ex-Republican too now.
My family still is MAGA.
It is a maddening position.
@quinnsentialOne it’s got to be hard seeing all the posts roasting MAGA & the GOP in juvenile ways. Those are “rally the base” posts even if the posters don’t realize it, they serve the same function as conservative talk like tucker Carlson
@EelGM I hate the MAGA movement.
But by attacking every conservative/Republican, most of whom are spoon fed information and don't get to see what you do, is just growing MAGA in whatever incarnation it takes. Trump or no Trump.
Trump didn't create MAGA.
He just named it.
The disconnect between urban and rural people created MAGA.
@quinnsentialOne Yes, yes, yes!!! I’ve been trying to tell people that and they look at me like I’m a space alien. MAGA was there before Trump. A bunch of really iterated people watching farms go bankrupt, small town businesses disappear and no one giving them any hope or answers. Hardly any people of other races, in these towns all all they hear is how they are racist and causing all the countries problems by just being white. Along comes Trump…poof MAGA
@EelGM Yup.
And people will read what I write and pass it off without a second thought.
Because they don't want to have any blame in being a part of what created MAGA.
But that's what happens when you leave people who are desperate out of the equation. They will turn to who/what gives them hope.
If they want to stop MAGA, voting isn't going to do it.
They have to reach out to and play big in the rurals. Election time or not. Nothing else will work. Trump will be replaced by another name.
@quinnsentialOne The Dems literally wrote off rural America. There is a paper trail that this was a conscious decision. They abandoned farmers & unions under the Clinton administration as their group took control of the national Dem party.
@EelGM Oh I know.
I can tell stories of how Democrats let corporate America chew away at farms. My family has a bunch of near dead farms just barely making it.
Or how they give special bias protection to corporate farms and dump subsidies on them while ignoring the small farms and making it harder for small, independent farms to exist.
@quinnsentialOne Wisconsin has led the nation in farm bankruptcies for years now.
You nailed it
The monopolies are key they control the prices more now than they did decades ago so prices go up in grocery stores but not for farmers
@EelGM That and hoops a farm has to jump through if they want to stay certified and be able to participate in the market at all.
Which is getting harder and harder to do as a small small.
Family farms are dying. And urban America doesn't give two thoughts about it. Not their problem.
@quinnsentialOne This is the game
Dems offer subsidies saying how they will help the little guy, but in fact they are skewed to big corporations
The GOP talks about deregulation saying how it will help the little guy, but again, regularly hard on little guys but come off corporations
@EelGM And the sad thing is.
We could talk about this all day and it'll get brushed off.
People really don't care about rural America.
They'll be happy to call rural conservatives racists, bigots, and other dreadful names for voting Republican without considering for a minute those Republicans might not see what they do while happily letting their farms and livelihoods die off.
So, rural Republicans become easy prey.
Democrats like to say they're woke while they're still half asleep.
@EelGM I would hope things like that could happen across America.
I own farm land. It was given to me by my grandparents, but I have chosen not to farm it. I walked away from it because I know it would have been expensive and grueling work for almost no return.
It's so heartbreaking to have been given something by your grandparents with their hopes that you could keep it alive.
And you just can't.
@quinnsentialOne did it by focusing on those farm bankruptcies and factory farms I forget the state legislative fixes they are pushing
@quinnsentialOne Democrats like republicans are a big group. Here in Wisconsin the OWN folks who are remaking the state Dem party are 💯 focused on farmers and rural issues have made inroads electing people in rural districts the state Dems thought would never elect a dem