There’s a belief I’ve heard from some men that, based on romance novels (which they don’t read), what women want is a guy over six feet tall and ripped, or whatever. But that’s just surface stuff. The fantasy is someone who makes them feel safe and loved. Tall and muscular is often a stand-in for safety. These books also usually deal with platonic relationships and found family. As well as the patriarchy.
Yeah, the guy has to change for love to be possible. They both do. That’s how stories work. In Pride and Prejudice, it’s right there. She has to get over her prejudice and he has to get over his pride.
It wouldn’t surprise me if local talking heads, that this demographic would be exposed to, were told not to use the local name for it.* To someone eligible for it, they’re not going to want to lose their Hawk-i, but they’re fine with the welfare queens losing their free insurance…not realizing that said welfare queens are also on Hawk-i.
These are the same people that will argue in favor of ACA but vote against Obamacare, not realizing it’s the same thing.
It’s interesting what people are for and against when they don’t know which side they’re ‘supposed’ to be on. And, personally, I think more people should be doing that. When there’s some new issue making the rounds, before reading anything about it (so not knowing much beyond the headlines I’ve seen), I try to give it a few minutes thought about what how I, personally, feel about it before I see what my ‘side’ has to say about it.
*rethinking that, it’s probably not that the local talking heads are avoiding it, it’s more likely that they’re not watching the local talking heads and Fox News is only going to refer to it as Medicaid.
Another supposed Twain quote that also true is: “It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him that he has been fooled.”
Watch the MAGAs blame Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Soros, and the Dems when they lose their healthcare and their local hospitals close, for example, because Trump said Medicare and Medicaid was untouchable.
These are the people you see in interviews that say things like Trump is the only honest President and only President that truly cares about the working class they’ve had in their lifetimes.
I do know who said: “I love the poorly educated”.
Not that being poorly educated makes you a fool. I’m sure there are middle school dropouts selling dope on the street corner that are far better at business than Trump, but poor education probably doesn’t help not being a fool. But then there are MAGAs who think education brain-washes one into become a non-critical-thinking liberal mental zombie while they join the cult of Trump where the Leader speaks the Truth. It all seems to come back to psychological projection.
A strange comment. There are extremely intelligent and successful people who are poorly educated, just by virtue of the circumstances of their lives. It happens.
Sure, being able to reason skeptically is correlated with overall education, hence trump’s quote, but the way you put it it’s a wonder that people who didn’t go to college can dress themselves.
One of my current favorites is a fake tweet from NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in 1986, gloating over the Challenger disaster (this was 20 years before Twitter began, and Mamdani was not yet born). As a followup, the parody “Rep. Jack Kimble” account posted a Mamdani tweet from April 1865, hailing the Lincoln assassination.
But then there’s the following: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Every single one of us can be fooled. I actually believed the Bush administration when they said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I believed them despite all the evidence to the contrary, partly because I simply could not believe the president of the United States would use an easily disprovable lie as a casus belli. Boy, was I wrong?
Anyone who still believes Trump and the MAGA talking heads are either fools or they’re a bunch of anti-American fuck sticks.
With a side order of “The only news they consumes tells them over and over that everything trump has ever said is true and everything he’s ever promised has happened. Or if not, it was only because of unstoppable evil forces trump hasn’t defeated … yet.”
When that’s their only actual connection to the world outside their personal day to day life of work, sleep, and visiting Walmart, trump seems like a much more successful character than he really is. Because he’s surrounded by a field of professional liars. Plus his own absolute disdain for the very concept of truth or falsity.
Most MAGAts don’t know they’ve been fooled even once, much less twice, or a thousand times.
So did I although for pretty much the same reason, although I would quibble about evidence to the contrary. I don’t recall there being a lot of evidence to the contrary at the time. That all came out later. Even among anti-war protestors (such as myself) it was generally acknowledged that Iraq probably had some amount of WMDs but that he was contained and had nothing to do with 9/11 so attacking him could only make things worse by provoking him into using them.
Adding to the lie quote, I think the current situation can be summed up with Lincoln’s paraphrased
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
With Godot’s added provision:
If the some of the people that you can fool all of the time makes up a sufficient portion of the electorate, you’re fucked
