I get that political memes communities are for building an echo chamber where you say whatever confirms everyone’s preexisting opinion, but this post is catastrophically dumb.
Conservative economic policies suck (not exactly surprising given conservative policies are largely just aimed at helping huge corporations squeeze as much money out of their labor, the public and the environment as possible and are intrinsically unsustainable and damaging to things that actually matter, like american quality of life), but of course red states have poorer economies- rural areas are both conservative and also intrinsically not going to have as much money as urban areas where there are more and larger businesses.
You can demonstrate that conservative economic “principles” suck dogshit a lot more effectively if your examples aren’t obviously hollow to anyone who thinks about them for more than 2 seconds.
But I guess that doesn’t make a meme that lots of people will upvote because it tells them their opinion is smart and good and that they don’t need to think about why they think the things they do.
It doesn’t matter that the argument is good. Conservative propaganda is completely stupid, but it convinces the right people. It is those people who are less educated that you need to convince. And no rational, educated argument will convince better in 10s than a shitty catch phrase.
I don’t think it’s an unfair comparison. Red states have large cities. Blue states have rural counties. I think the stats are based on median income? Red states are more “business friendly,” so you would expect all that business activity to trickle down and be reflected in the median wages?
I get that political memes communities are for building an echo chamber where you say whatever confirms everyone’s preexisting opinion, but this post is catastrophically dumb.
Conservative economic policies suck (not exactly surprising given conservative policies are largely just aimed at helping huge corporations squeeze as much money out of their labor, the public and the environment as possible and are intrinsically unsustainable and damaging to things that actually matter, like american quality of life), but of course red states have poorer economies- rural areas are both conservative and also intrinsically not going to have as much money as urban areas where there are more and larger businesses.
You can demonstrate that conservative economic “principles” suck dogshit a lot more effectively if your examples aren’t obviously hollow to anyone who thinks about them for more than 2 seconds.
But I guess that doesn’t make a meme that lots of people will upvote because it tells them their opinion is smart and good and that they don’t need to think about why they think the things they do.
It doesn’t matter that the argument is good. Conservative propaganda is completely stupid, but it convinces the right people. It is those people who are less educated that you need to convince. And no rational, educated argument will convince better in 10s than a shitty catch phrase.
I don’t think it’s an unfair comparison. Red states have large cities. Blue states have rural counties. I think the stats are based on median income? Red states are more “business friendly,” so you would expect all that business activity to trickle down and be reflected in the median wages?