And ANOTHER reason we Democrats lost and will continue to lose

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87. I get your point...

as I live in a rural area of a large county with low population. However, it has one of best school systems in the state. when the students who do not drop out graduate, many go on for further education. Once educated they go where the jobs are. The ones who stay take whatever job they can get, and these are mostly low paying.
Our people are for the most part dependable, honest and very hard workers. (Yes, we do have a number of exceptions as a matter of course.) After a day at work, many go home to feed their live stock, take care of their crops, sow. cut, get up hay in prep. for winter, and help out their neighbors and friends.
At the end of the day, they would like to unwind so where do they go for that - low calorie TV as sit-coms and Fox Entertainment.
The radio stations are am - owned by Republicans, which are listened to on the way to and from work and for some, at work.
Newspapers are delivered to the post-office and are not news by the time we get them.
Another reason - if the Repub. party was good enough for daddy and granddaddy; well then. it is good enough for me.
The do not know that the party began to change back in the late 60s and early 70s with the Koch bros. and some others. There was the Porter Report which sounds good until you take it apart piece by piece. Then came corporations and money took over.
I grew up in an uneducated household (Democratic, thankfully) and once I left, never went back except to visit. My mother made sure that I would not get stuck in the bright red area where we lived.
Almost all of the people who left for further education or other reasons never went back either. I have lost many 'used-to-be' friends from there and don't go back for reunions any more as the more enlightened ones are too old now to travel, although I do live close enough to go.
Talking to some of these people about politics is like someone from NASA telling me how to calculate an orbit!
That said, how do we reach the people who need our message but do not read, don't know the 50cent words, don't have the time or interest to learn and are stuck in one mind-set?