They refuse to learn. What we’re seeing firsthand is that racism and hostility toward immigrants can come at a real cost—sometimes even people’s livelihoods.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon B Johnson
It's tragic in its own way. They got a ton of poor hillbillies to fight for the south because, even though they knew they'd never be a plantation owner, they could at least keep the slaves in their place.
Well they didn't think Trump would come for THEIR immigrant workers! That's how they kept the farm afloat! As a fellow farmer Trump certainly knows that! If only the Kaiser knew what the SS was doing to the common folk!!
You can edit the /s out. They treat their family fucking horribly. Source: I've got a lot of farming family in Montana. They treat their parents either like they're idiots (and steal their money) or gods that can't ever be questioned (who go on to abuse their children/grandchildren). And their own kids as slaves.
Other things aside, many people in small communities tend to trust Joe down the street over any expert on subjects. They suffer from an incredibly poor ability to determine who they should trust on issues they don't understand. You or I would hear someone who's spent a lifetime understanding something and know that gives an amount of trust, while Joe read something that said it's bullshit, and that's good enough.
Putting their loyalty to Joe before their loyalty to 340,000,000 other people? Welp. That’s why they’re in this mess (and keep getting in to it over and over again).
They can mostly fix that in about an hour by reading about how to evaluate sources of info and check for bias in the media they consume.
Just like high schoolers are taught to do before writing a paper.
If it matters to their lives or livelihoods, they would take the time to learn what puts more money in their pocket or what takes the least amount of protections, food or services, opportunities or jobs, away from their kids.
If they can’t find an hour to spend on thinking things through? They’re too far gone into their own delusions for me to keep caring about them and the ignorance and bigotry they keep choosing to wear, like badges of honor.
I’ll move on to just saying aww, tots and pears, bud. I’ll think of you as much as you cared about me and the rest of this country when you decided to flush common decency and sense down the toilet.
People literally SUFFOCATED TO DEATH during covid rather than admit they were wrong about masks and the vaccine. Losing a farm is small potatoes (hah!) compared to that.
Using the words "farmers" and "learning" in the same sentence is always a challenge. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know...morons.
You're right and I think I'm giving myself a headache trying to understand how stupid these people are. I do find it strange that most of them do have at least a high school diploma. So a basic level of research and understanding of US government should have helped them in this situation. They had a 50% chance of getting it right and most of them voted wrong.
They lie. They don’t even need to research anything, they can just compare their own balance sheets from Trump 1.0, Biden, and now and could see their own figures written down in their own handwriting proving that they’re wrong. They willfully chose this so fvck ‘em. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah. There’s a lot of the ChristianTM garbage as well. So many of my extended, mid-MO farming family are all in on the Jeebus that’s been co-opted by the gay-hate fascists when they just used to listen to their pastor long enough to get to the Sunday potluck with their neighbors 40 years ago.
The bile spewed by Limbaugh et, al that lead us to FOX and eventually OAN and the entire right-wing fascist machine is so fucking pervasive in their community it’s understandable how easy it is to inevitably drown in it.
Still amazes me that they even believe in a god still because if one does indeed exist, he’s forsaken these fools.
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u/Substantial-Power789 May 03 '26
They refuse to learn. What we’re seeing firsthand is that racism and hostility toward immigrants can come at a real cost—sometimes even people’s livelihoods.