VOX: This Trump voter didn't think Trump was serious about repealing her health insurance

[Squinch]

135. It's not more complicated than that. Every point you make about the people in your area

supports the idea that these people are working as hard as they can against their own interests, not to mention mine. You are describing people who follow a party that screws them over and over again and yet they believe that the other party, the one that safeguards their very existence is the evil group. This is the definition of dumbass.

There was a thread a few days ago where Recursion flipped the narrative. Since the election we have been talking about "what do we do about the fact that the Democratic party is out of touch with the rural voter." As a Democrat, I didn't take that as an insult, did you? But he flipped it to say "what do we do about the fact that the rural voter is out of touch with the party that actually works for them?" The responses from rural people were irate. They were all highly insulted and saw it as a smear against them, condescension, an insult. All sorts of horrible things. It was none of those. It was nothing more than what has been said about the rest of us since November 8.

Before this election, I never looked down on rural people. In fact, like most urban people, I never gave rural people any more thought than rural people gave me. But after this election, yes I do look down on the rural people that voted for Trump. Those people, the people that you describe, are idiots. You describe idiotic self destructive actions and belief patterns. That is not on anyone else. That is on those morons themselves. There is no way around it. That is completely stupid. And their stupidity stands to hurt me and you immeasurably.

If these ultrasensitive, quick- to- find- insult rural people want to be looked at with more respect, they might start by not voting like imbeciles.