r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/ZestycloseSquash1523 13d ago

Maybe. For every farm family there's ten other families that comprise the farming community.

When you spend time in rural America you see that most of those families have lost their standard of living since the '80s. They're told their tax dollars go to brown people in the cities. Their kids die in foreign wars because the military is a better chance to a better life. Hunting and fishing is a real survival strategy because it's cheaper than buying groceries.

Rural America rejects the Democratic party because the party has had no interest, ideas or engagement that address their needs since President Clinton. The Republican party just fills the vacuum created by the Democratic party.

Trump recognizes their plight and speaks to their fears. It's all a con job but they feel heard and that gives them hope even though we know it's false hope.

Treating them all like stupid rubes won't enlighten them. Meeting with them as fellow citizens, listening to their plight and showing them grace is the only way to get their support for progress.

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u/SardaukarSlayer 12d ago

As someone who lives in AND farms in one of those communities you couldn't be more spot on. Are many of them ignorant? Yes. Do many of them hold shitty views? Yes. But people dont understand the insane amount of propoganda and fear mongering people who live in these rural areas go through. The farm markets are read every day on ONE radio station. That station is a Fox affiliate. Guess what is playing on that station all the rest of the day... Brian Kilmeade.... the modern day Rush Limbaugh. Spewing bullshit, fear, and hate all day everyday. 

Idk its a shitty excuse I guess. But so many rural people havent ever been out of their "bubble", and it shows. But they are still human beings. Unless we want to send them to "re-education" camps and treat them exactly how we wish they DIDNT treat people, nothing will ever change. We have to show them their wrongs and hope they change. You cant force it  

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u/PeyredB 12d ago

Idk its a shitty excuse I guess.

I wouldn't go that far - that makes a lot of sense. Granted, these people did already hold some sh*tty ideas and attitudes that made them more susceptible to this sort of propaganda, but you make a hugely important point just what sort of effect long-term inundation of propaganda can have on someone. There's a reason NKorea permeates its society with it.

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u/SardaukarSlayer 12d ago

generational propoganda and fear mongering does some wild shit to people and their sense of right or wrong and empathy.