A thought --

[BigBearJohn]

In much the same manner as a highly infectious virus, the MAGAts have infected our country with their stupidity and vile evil and their disease is infecting others across the country, rotting our country from the inside out. Unlike Covid though, there is no vaccine to come to the nation's rescue. I guess we could attribute it to all those years of inbreeding diluting the gene pool.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. There's something to that

Rural populations, especially poor ones, remain in the same locale across many generations. Everyone is a cousin after awhile.

[ShazamIam]

2. Yes, and my thoughts are they were deliberately led there by the anti-democratic conservative

billionaires who not only took over the Republican political party but the conservative religious leaders as well.

I know they are being used to dismantle our democratic republic but I consider them victims of a war that includes a now 50 year old outright war on educating the laboring and working classes.

And, the middle class, (the real middle class, the professional class) not only looked on and did nothing but actively supported it by voting Nixon/Reagan/Bush.

One of the tricks, was labeling the working class as the middle class which greatly aided in wage suppression.

Middle class used to be something the working class aspired to so they just made the working class, the middle class, aspirations achieved.