Political Memes

Republican states also take more money from the federal govt for social services and entitlements.

Disclaimer: I don’t live in the US and, when looking at US politicians, my opinions are most aligned with those of Bernie Sanders.

I don’t think that the problem here is the republicans or democrats, but both. These poor places have long been neglected and no politician care about states that are not swing states and have very few electors. The whole political system seems to abandon poor people, old people and people living in rural areas.

The reason why they vote for Trump is that they want to give a big middle finger to those that they see trying to dismantle their way of life: city people and rich people. Farmers work very hard to feed their country and there’s a pride in being self reliant.

Take for example modern cars, you’re not supposed to fix them yourself. That’s the producers fault. But when politicians make fuel costs go up and try to incentivize EV purchases, people can feel like their agency is taken away. The problem isn’t the fuel pricing or the drive train, but the fact that you can no longer service your own car.

This is a problem with society in general, not with republicans. The alt-right movement feeds on these fractures in society. It’s a symptom, not the underlying sickness. To combat this we need better social security, free healthcare, and more wealth redistribution.

I get that political memes communities are for building an echo chamber where you say whatever confirms everyone's preexisting opinion, but this post is catastrophically dumb.

Conservative economic policies suck (not exactly surprising given conservative policies are largely just aimed at helping huge corporations squeeze as much money out of their labor, the public and the environment as possible and are intrinsically unsustainable and damaging to things that actually matter, like american quality of life), but of course red states have poorer economies- rural areas are both conservative and also intrinsically not going to have as much money as urban areas where there are more and larger businesses.

You can demonstrate that conservative economic "principles" suck dogshit a lot more effectively if your examples aren't obviously hollow to anyone who thinks about them for more than 2 seconds.

But I guess that doesn't make a meme that lots of people will upvote because it tells them their opinion is smart and good and that they don't need to think about why they think the things they do.

And they want it that way. Because they can look at their constituents, point a finger at everywhere/everyone else, and say "look what THEY'RE doing to you! They're causing ALL of your problems!" And those people continue to eat it up, every single time.

I can usually point out why conservatives think and act a certain way. Logical from their point of view, if mostly wrong. Still, I get them.

I've never had an answer to this sort of post. I guess they just fall back to, "It's $somebody_elses_fault!" And that seems to work for 'em, drives votes.

I'd rather fight alongside republicans and democrats to make sure everyone lives in dignity and isn't ground into dust by the gears of capitalism rather than pushing more red vs blue rhetoric. Fuck the politicians that put the south in the position it's in today.

Republicans don't have policies. I know because i asked reddit's conservative sub once and got down voted with no responses.

"Fiscally conservative"

Give me a break. If you understood conservatives economic policy you would not want anywhere near it. Unless you're a bigot and think human suffering fuels the prosperity for a select, "morally superior", few.

Points gun at you: "I win". /s

(you may think this is in poor taste but consider: isn't this the actual, authentic reality of the situation?)

Or maybe poorer (and often less educated people) tend to vote Republican?

Also, 11 of the 20 most violent crime ridden cities are in red states. The city with the most violent crime is St. Louis, which is in Missouri, a very solidly red state.

Number 20 on that list? Republican favorite boogeyman Chicago. Safer than Nashville, Tennessee. Safer than Anchorage, Alaska. Safer than Indianapolis, Indiana. Safer than Little Rock, Arkansas. But I suppose those are all "blue" cities.

Yeah, republicans are very dumb.

I have a lot of points against conservatives but I don’t think this is one of them. It could similarly be framed as “the rich vs the poor”, and quite often we would side with the poor.

In their eyes, democrats have somehow stolen their wealth through their policies, thus making them victims of external disruption. Not saying I agree, of course, but you can see how they view it that way.

I don't think you can draw a direct line from the statistics to economic policy. It may be more true that the voters for the Republican party are less educated and more rural in those counties

It’s all about love languages. Gotta find a way to love people the way they want/understand love.

Poverty drives people to the right, maybe?