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How have these goddamn morons got elected? How high the voter turnout has been? I'm afraid it's not stupidity, but malfeasance, likely fueled by some kind of c

by nine_k 1y ago

How have these goddamn morons got elected? How high the voter turnout has been? I'm afraid it's not stupidity, but malfeasance, likely fueled by some kind of corruption. (It's not impossible, of course, that Louisiana's population universally hates the coastal cleanup effort and demands to stop it, no matter what it costs,and the administration just followsthe will of the people. Somehow I never heard of such unusual sentiment though.)

KennyBlanken 1y ago
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munificent 1y ago
> it's not stupidity, but malfeasance, likely fueled by some kind of corruption As someone who grew up in Louisiana: it's all three. It's always all three.
chneu 1y ago
There is an amazing book about this. The author interviewed hundreds of people down in Alabama to get an idea of how they felt about these things. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_Their_Own_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_Their_Own_Land The gist of it is that people think short term. They can care about the environment/greater good but if you promise them jobs/prosperity in the short term they'll usually vote for that, despite their livelihood/environment being destroyed by the industry that promised them the jobs. Then when things don't work out they blame minorities, women, etc for "cutting in line" with the help of people like Obama and democrats. It's really not that complicated which, imo, is kind of sad.
- hulitu 1y ago
  > It's really not that complicated which, imo, is kind of sad. They learn in school that "others" are to blame. (British, for starting the American revolution, Japanese for WW2). Analytic thinking is hard, especially when it doesn't fit the current narative.
Amezarak 1y ago
This isn't about coastal cleanup, this is using coastal cleanup funds from the oil spill to remediate the effects of damming the Mississippi river.

by nine_k 1y ago

KennyBlanken 1y ago

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munificent 1y ago

> it's not stupidity, but malfeasance, likely fueled by some kind of corruption As someone who grew up in Louisiana: it's all three. It's always all three.

chneu 1y ago

There is an amazing book about this. The author interviewed hundreds of people down in Alabama to get an idea of how they felt about these things. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_Their_Own_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_Their_Own_Land The gist of it is that people think short term. They can care about the environment/greater good but if you promise them jobs/prosperity in the short term they'll usually vote for that, despite their livelihood/environment being destroyed by the industry that promised them the jobs. Then when things don't work out they blame minorities, women, etc for "cutting in line" with the help of people like Obama and democrats. It's really not that complicated which, imo, is kind of sad.

hulitu 1y ago
> It's really not that complicated which, imo, is kind of sad. They learn in school that "others" are to blame. (British, for starting the American revolution, Japanese for WW2). Analytic thinking is hard, especially when it doesn't fit the current narative.

Amezarak 1y ago

This isn't about coastal cleanup, this is using coastal cleanup funds from the oil spill to remediate the effects of damming the Mississippi river.