• @FiniteBanjo
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    213 months ago

    Or Theocrats

    Or, for a smaller demographic, purely greed

    Or a person misled by people who subscribe to the previous three

      • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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        63 months ago

        You’re not entirely wrong. But it goes deeper. There are minority Republicans. What motivates Cuban Americans? Or Black Evangelicals? They are motivated by hierarchy and authoritarianism, all under the structures of capitalism. Capitalism needs hierarchies and wealth inequality to exist. Racial Capitalism

        • @acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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          13 months ago

          Entire libraries worth of ink have been poured in an effort to understand, mythologize, and explain the behavior of white rural voters — why they are so attached to former President Donald Trump, […]

          Emphasis added.

      • @FiniteBanjo
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        63 months ago

        Personally, I think it’s more than a little reductive to try to eliminate all nuance to every situation, especially politics, but it certainly makes the world seem a lot simpler.