Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "" video.

  1. White rural Americans are voluntarily and eagerly manipulated by affirmation. (k)lansmen, preachers and other demagogues know exactly how to play locals like a fiddle simply be ACCEPTING THEIR CONDITIONS OF ENGAGEMENT. You don't stay poor (be ye rural or urbanite) for generations unless your culture is toxic and self-destructive. You don't stay poor for generations by making good choices. For example when your local geography makes economic diversification impractical wise people relocate as my parents did. The US was built by immigrants (voluntary, indentured and chattel slavery varieties included) but many of their descendants refuse to relocate a few hundred miles to improve their lot. This is also noted among many African-Americans who rarely escape their home towns, which should be no surprise since the poor have more in common than otherwise. Both blame externalities and fail to own their choices. This will not change because fierce rustic pride prohibits introspection and genuine curiousity about the world. (Other impoverished subcultures cultures which live in a self-inflicted regenerative feedback loop in urban areas are similarly and often much more self-destructive.) The Democratic party lost rural areas after Lyndon Baines Johnson (an unsung civil rights hero more remembered for his idiotic misunderstanding of Southeast Asian culture and nationalism that buried the US in Viet Nam) abandoned the Dixiecrats in pursuit of national influence over time. Failure to maintain racism (Strom Thurmond didn't switch parties casually...) was seen as betrayal so those voters and their politicians fled to the GOP except for a tiny few remaining holdouts like Senator Manchin. The hard urbanite Left Democratic tent of 2024 is not suited to the rustic market and should give up the fool's errand of engaging it. Like the Coalition effort in Afghanistan, the locals cannot want what they're selling in meaningful numbers and like other fundamentalists are predisposed to attacking those who challenge their way of thinking. They're too angry and proud of it to ever be rational, and not culturally wired for anything but conformity. Better to ignore them since the cultural differences (and general tone-deafness among the urbanite Democrat base to anyone they don't identify with) and seek votes elsewhere. BLUF is they don't want to question their worldview, they demand to be agreed with and there is nothing at all to be done about that. Like Russian rustic ultranationalists they've no potential for intellectual growth. That should never be discussed by those seeking their votes. MAGA works because it perfectly affirms their self-image, and that self-image is their economic doom. No possible Democrat policy or leader (there will never be another Huey Long who was a creature of his era) can win them over and effort wasted on that futile pursuit will garner more votes elsewhere. Of course Democrats in their self-righteousness are equally but differently tone-deaf and wiser to preach to/affirm their existing, natural base. A millstone round the neck of the Democratic party is old white lefties who don't know when to get out of the way because they imagine themselves indispensible. Dems are better off working to control coastal, cosmopolitan areas and leaving flyover country to the locals who will remain fine with that social distancing. Enemies should not share dirt.
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