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Originally Posted by New Era
Both of you mean well, but you're way off base. I really don't believe you understand what drives Americans, especially uneducated and rural Americans, and definitely not those in the south. You don't understand it until you actually live it and are exposed to it. You need to see it, hear it, smell it, and just live it to get it. These are not people you win over with policies or ideas. You win them by playing to their base instincts and leveraging the biases that have developed over the decades. This is why the Republicans are better at this game than the Democrats, because they understand how to leverage these biases and motivate these people to vote against their very self-interests and in favor of the corporations that are making their lives worse.
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Regarding the uneducated and rural Americans, if there was better access to college or university education in rural areas, and good incentives for young people in rural areas to seek higher education, over time could rural areas be turned purple or would you just start churning out educated Republicans?
I'm curious about whether the urban/rural divide has much overlap with the educated/non-educated divide?
Obviously I don't know nothing about nothing, or if even such an initiative would be possible to implement federally. I'm sure Republican states wouldn't take too kindly to the idea.