[quote=FlyerInHi]
Of course, as nice people, we welcome all immigrants, foreign and domestic. … I don’t really care what goes on in the red states. [/quote]
Those seem contradictory. If we’re nice people, we care what goes on in the red states.
You seem to want to believe that coastal elites and immigrants are superior to red staters. That is contradictory to your claim of being a nice person. Humans are humans, and, to a very large extent they have what they have, both materially and culturally, due to where and when and under what circumstances they were born. Don’t be so sure you wouldn’t be a trump-votin’ redneck if you were born in an Alabama trailer park to a gun-totin’, confederate-flag-wavin’ pick up truck-drivin’ daddy and a church-goin’, fox news-watchin’ breitbart-readin’ mama. Daddy and mama have been regurgitating the propaganda they see on tv to you your whole life. All your friends and neighbors (and probably your governor and your senators and your congressman) hate Obama and liberals and gun-taking-away Clintons. All your life you’ve been told government is the enemy. Government is keeping us down. Godless poindexters trying to tell you how to live your life. You sure you’d bust right out of that and head for the coast and start dressing fancy and drinking lattes and voting for Sanders? Probably you wouldn’t, maybe you would. But your average person, and even most smarter-than-average people, wouldn’t. Not because they’re bad people. Because they are who they are and have what they have largely due to when and where and in what circumstances they were born.
The problem isn’t the people of the red states. They’re human beings same as the rest of us, and they are who they are mostly due to circumstance. The problem is that they’ve been emotionally manipulated (mostly by the right-wing noise machine) for over a generation. The problem is that the manipulators get away with it.
Sure, I call trump voters idiots. And I do believe that they are. But that doesn’t mean that they’re different from or worse than most humans. Most humans are idiots in that they believe what they want to believe rather than what they can see with their own eyes. Most humans are idiots in that it’s easy to manipulate them to want to believe (and therefore to believe) whatever you (the manipulator) want them to believe.
I wouldn’t know how to go about changing or eliminating that manipulation. But, if you are a nice person and you want to help people, the way to go about helping people in red states, in my opinion, would be to do something about the manipulation that makes people vote against their own interests (if you can figure out a way to do that).
