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submitted 2 days ago by pinballwizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196

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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[-] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago

Mostly just decades of brainwashing of the culture war. I’m an urban leftist who moved from a big city to a very small one in the rural countryside and the sheer amount of leftist ideals that get spouted by conservative voters I hear regularly is staggering. They have no clue that what they want from life is all left of center.

[-] derAbsender@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not a redneck but a collegue of mine said to me dead serious that a planned economy is not Communist, because big corporations use it.

What are you gonna do with people that seemingly barely manage to find their mouth to put food in it?!

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

But they only want it for their little group

If you have different colour skin, like the same sex, have a different religion (or none at all), then you're evil and don't deserve a damned thing

They're stupid and hateful and I'm not going to bother to dial back my contempt for them

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

Never forget they'd've rather shut down the public pool than have their kids share it with black kids; the unions were all for class solidarity, so long as the black working class weren't allowed membership.

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