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10. It's because it could erode their policy of Small Group Control.
Wed Apr 7, 2021, 04:43 PM
Apr 2021

There is a reason small towns and rural areas are overwhelmingly Republican.

Small groups with little diversity are easiest to influence.

In my area, you turn on the radio and it is all conservative talk, 24/7. Turn on the local TV news, you get Sinclair. Go to the store, the doctor's office, your workplace, you run into people who are desperately trying to conform to the small group's conservative norms. Go to church, you get more conservative talk, augmented with "Amens!" from all your peers.

I don't have any black friends. I don't even know any black people. I don't have any LGBTQ friends, or at least not any that admit it. I live in a homogenous small American town, made up of generations of European settlers that don't interact with the "outside".

Isolate people, control the influencers, and most people will conform. There is a science to it.

I don't understand why Democrats don't get this. They do not compete in rural areas and small towns.

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