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Although modern politics has changed things, rednecks have historically been anti authority and pro labor. Building a rural/urban alliance like Bill Clinton did would genuinely create an entirely new era of politics that would be friendly to liberal leftist ideologies.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Some are.

( for them-of-us who don't know, "redneck", at root, only means outdoors-work, sunburned, & working-class.

The Republican-identity was programmed-in to them by the corporations which were committed to controlling them, & feeding-on their lives.

I'd not bet 1 single cent on John Deere being innocent of that, & now fighting-against their right to repair ANYthing )


See the yt channels which are people of rural US, some veterans, who're vocal-enough that .. their liklihood of surviving Trump's dictatorship .. isn't great.

FAR more courage than I've got ( aka they have faces, I don't, having never applied to get one, when I left school last-century ; )

But it's all identity, fundamentally.

& when people have been taught, in school, to be insecure, then they hold-onto whatever it is that props-up their identity-security.


John Taylor Gatto, NY State Teacher of the Year Award winner, torched his teaching-career in his acceptance-speech, by telling the truth about what "education" is.

part of that is enforcing insecurity in the students, so that their dependency-on-bestowed-approval gives the institution the leverage it needs, to manipulate them.

Children utterly-certain of their validity, & of being-loved/accepted, cannot be manipulated-through-insecurity the way "education" requires, for its positional-superiority/"authority".

Unfortunately, breaking inherent-validity from entire-populations has consequences, including dependency on identity-anchors, like Republican-party, or confederatism, or nazism, or communism, or whatever.

Ideologies, not specific-ideologies, but ideology-the-whole-category, is trying to highjack our world, & break correct-reasoning from it, for sake of its reacting method.

THAT is the underlying enemy of our world's life.

The specific ideologies are just "makeup" on the underlying-mechanism, the programmed-reacting mechanism, which displaces correct-reasoning from our world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto#Main_thesis


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