Why you can't reason with them

[easttexaslefty]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/

[niyad]

1. I lonog ago gave up trying to reason with these monsters.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Better governance through the sympathetic magic of ideology...magical thinkers the lot of them.

[haele]

3. They choose to live in a small world with a small god.

It's very comfortable if one just wants to be happy living the life of teenager where if you just do your chores and the work that's expected, you get lots of atta-boys and an allowance and can still live comfortably and semi-autonomously at home with Mom and Dad taking care of the big stuff for you.

Growing up, making your way around a huge, impersonal world, and taking responsibility is hard, scary, and fraught with failure.

Haele

[Wounded Bear]

4. They have formed their opinions...

confusing them with facts just pisses them off.

[dawg]

5. And yet, I'm one of them and I voted for Hillary.

Hell, I even voted for Bernie in the primaries. (Although I almost regret that)

I'm whiter than most of those people will ever be.

I'm a Christian, and I am susceptible to all sorts of "magical" thinking.

Many of their hometowns are like New York City compared to mine.

I'm not really sure what it was that made me different. But I know for a fact that rural, white, Christian people are capable of seeing the light.

[Blue_true]

6. Most.

Have no idea that Jesus was a dark skinned middle eastern person. The crusaders Europeanized Christianity.

[Squinch]

7. This is a fabulous article. Thank you.

[easttexaslefty]

10. You're welcone.

[lindysalsagal]

8. I read every word. Scary. It's like we have N. Korean brain-washing right here at home.

I have no idea what the solution is. But it proves that moving the democratic agenda to the middle won't help.

[erinlough]

9. Add their pure greed into this analysis

And it’s my experience with them as well. And I live in a republican rural county of Michigan.