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Do you think any of those people actually think to themselves "I'm going to vote against my economic self-interest because of Last Place Aversion"?
by free_rms 6y ago
Do you think any of those people actually think to themselves "I'm going to vote against my economic self-interest because of Last Place Aversion"?
- scarface74 6y agoMaybe they don’t say that but how many farmers who voted for Trump because of his platform about deporting “illegals” are now complaining that they can’t find anyone to work their farms because Americans won’t work the fields at any price? And they are going to vote for him again? How many “good Christians” support him even after the recording came out about him “grabbing a woman by the p%%%%”?
- free_rms 6y agoFarmers are rich, though, and they're doing fine for labor. The trade war hit them worse by tanking pork prices. For working class people, neoliberal economics have done nothing for them. Plants in town have closed and they don't see any investment in their community from their tax dollars. If neither party is going to look out for you, it's perfectly rational to sigh and pick the one that at least doesn't villainize you as some sort of oppressor. If the democrats want to win back the white union vote, they need to actually offer something besides "vote for us or you're racist". I guess there's always 2024.