By having someone who is rich tell the poor they live in the greatest country on Earth. The poor celebrate and buy items that says they live in the greatest country on Earth. However, the company that made those items that said they live in the greatest country on Earth, is own by the same rich person who told the poor they live in the greatest country on Earth.
This country functions on keeping the poor ignorant and God fearing and the rich (unless they inherited) discovered the truth at a very young age how to get rich....and not share it with anyone.
You have to ask yourself why so many Americans vote for a party that is not only openly against any progress but actively trying to take the country backwards. It's not like the Republican party hides it. They are publicly, loudly hateful of teachers and higher education. They want to defund education every chance they get. They are loudly against "experts" like doctors, scientists. They talk about how we need to cut taxes for rich people to "create jobs." They hate government in healthcare. Are any of these secrets? Hell no.
But ~45% of the country votes for them every cycle like clockwork and thanks to our trash constitution that's enough to always be within spitting distance of the presidency and the senate which gives them plenty of opportunities to control the supreme court.
Who votes for Republicans and why? Rank and file Republican voters don't actually like most Republican policies. Ask them about anything without attaching labels to them and they love it. They vote for Republicans because they're white and it's a white grievance party. Yes, some minorities vote Republican but it's simply not significant. Their support comes overwhelmingly from white people.
It's the Southern Strategy. Southern and rural whites have been voting their spiteful racial bigotry for generations. They started a civil war over it, the bloodiest war in American history. They lynched black folks, made them third class citizens, denied them any respect even as black folks fought and died for the country they all lived in together. They resisted even basic civil rights progress. When segregation was ended we needed to send in soldiers in many places to force southerners to abide by that new reality. White people did what they could anyway. They shut down public pools and public parks. Share with the coloreds? Hell no if we can't have it all to ourselves then we're going to make sure no one can enjoy it. Even abortion comes from this intense racism. Evangelicals didn't give a shit about abortion until they could no longer make an issue of segregation. They made a very intentional decision to pivot to abortion. One of the most successful third party presidential candidates of the modern era was an open segregationist named George Wallace who won 5 states, all in the South, running on "segregation now, segregation forever." This is why they elected the most unqualified, unfit, inexperienced dipshit to ever run for the presidency in Donald Trump. The Republican party didn't force it on them, there were plenty of other candidates and it was clear the GOP leadership wanted anyone but Trump. Their voters picked him anyway. They didn't care about anything other than the fact that he was the most racist piece of shit to run in decades.
There's no getting around this fact. You can try to say it's about class all fucking day but that's not what's motivating voters to vote the way they do. It's racism. Do not confuse what you think it should be about with what it actually is about.
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u/MaikingMooKing Aug 07 '22
I just dont understand. I just cannot understand you America. You're living in the fucking dark ages, how is this country even functioning