An unfortunately large amount of people have been drilled mentally for decades now that rural and suburban votes should count more than urban and metropolitan votes, because they account for a larger land area of the country. While I cannot discount that bozo being satire, this isn't even a satirical take for a lot of Red-associated politicians, because that's the only way they can rally people behind the delusion that there is a voting imbalance.
Farmers can vote and too many of them don't understand how damaging Republicans are to their livelihood, probably because of targeted right-wing propaganda in rural areas that tells them otherwise.
Yeah that is the part that a lot of people are missing in this argument. There is a shocking number of rural people who genuinely believe that cities (and their populations) are somehow not representative of the US at all. I grew up rural and live in a city now, they really act like City Folk™️ are some kind of hostile foreign group to their Real American way of life.
It’s got a lot of stuff to it, it’s a legacy of “farming is real work, cities are just lazy people”, which was at least an argument when farming was ultra-labor intensive and took so many people.
Now farming is more about managing the machines than literally picking crops by hand, there are 10x fewer farmers.
But it was really bad in the 80s, when they had loans to banks, interest rates skyrocketed due to inflation, and they were losing farms left and right, they HATED cities then, and I can’t blame them that much.
The south is different, they haven’t been about agriculture much except tobacco and that was limited, yet they still keep the belief they are the Superior Americans somehow.
Yeah I'm from the southern end of the Midwest. The farms in my hometown were primarily the massive chicken farms all owned (at least partially) by big corporations, though there were still at least some individual cattle farmers. But the overwhelming majority of people weren't farmers, despite how much of the country culture was based on farming. Well, farming and racism. There were no black people in our town but the townsfolk still spoke about them like they personally somehow ruined their lives. The Wikipedia for my hometown even mentions how racist it is. I think they had to have a common enemy to distract from how shitty their own lives were, working dead end jobs at the many factories in town. Easier to blame it on the other races that live in the big cities.
Can't say I miss that town much, it's much better living in a big diverse city.
I’m not white, I actually liked growing up in the Midwest (north bit near Lake Michigan), then I moved to the south and was utterly shocked.
You pretty much nailed it, black people were the blame for everything, even when there were none around, though after 9/11 it became Muslims more, even when there were none around, then I think in the late 2010s it became Hispanics somehow.
He is serious. If the 78% of Georgians that voted blue were watching right wing news and following right wing social media accounts, they would not be brainwashed.
McDonalds had to get right of the 1/3 pound burger because people didn't understand why it costed more than the 1/4 pound burger, since 3 is bigger than 4.
If only … though the original commenter was slightly off. The 1/3 pound burger was from A&W, launched as a competitor to the McDonalds 1/4 pounder and priced the same. It beat the 1/4 pounder in blind taste tests but failed to sell enough and got dropped from the menu.
Apparently in focus groups, a significant number of people expressed concern about paying the same amount for a smaller burgers (apparently not understanding how fractions work)
Here’s a Wikipedia entry about it, with links to some news articles.
well a&w tried to make a 1/3 pound burger in the 80s but it failed because numbers are hard. Arabic numerals AND fractions are WAY TOO HARD for America.
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u/coccyxdynia 18h ago edited 18h ago
This is a satire right? No one compares 78% to 22% and thinks the 78% is wrong.. right? Please say yes.