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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have a lot of points against conservatives but I don’t think this is one of them. It could similarly be framed as “the rich vs the poor”, and quite often we would side with the poor.

In their eyes, democrats have somehow stolen their wealth through their policies, thus making them victims of external disruption. Not saying I agree, of course, but you can see how they view it that way.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Unfortunately you are correct in that is probably how they see it. Something along the lines of, Democrats flooded the country with immigrants who stole our jobs and therefore we are poor.

    Or actually shit like NAFTA and other trade agreements fucked a lot of blue workers out of their jobs.

    I actually sympathise with a lot of the anger the reders have with some of the economical policies that were passed, by both sides btw since they fucked the middle class pretty hard and allowed corporations to use our infrastructure to make money while shiping jobs oversees and hiding their money in tax shelter counties all in the name of "free trade".

    It's part of the reason the Democrats lost the rural voters so hard, is because they don't even acknowledge this problem.

    Republicans acknowledge this problem (that they also caused btw), but they acknowledge it and of course offer no solution except hate, but they are still ahead of the Democrats in the voter's eyes becuase hey... At least they tell us there is a problem.

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