frigidweirdo
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I found I had JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy on my Kindle so I started to read it. It's a good book, readable and interesting from both a family view, a hillbilly view and a political view.
At times I wonder how the person who wrote this book could end up becoming Trump's VP candidate.
"The paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist"
It's basically saying that hillbillies make a fantasy version of the world and live in that. It kind of makes sense that they'd vote for MAGA which is, in effect, a fantasy world created to make people feel like they're in control of their lives.
So, how does someone go from identify this fantasy world created, saying it's a problem, saying it leads to people making bad choices, to going out there and taking advantage of these people making bad choices?
"Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers"
Here he's talking about how people just don't care to work hard any more. He spoke about a friend who quit his job because he didn't want to get up early any more, but then claimed the "Obama economy" effected his life, in a negative way. But Vance is saying it was because of the individual, and not the "Obama economy" (which was part of the recession that started before Obama became President.
"Many try to blame the anger and cynicism of working-class whites on misinformation. Admittedly, there is an industry of conspiracy-mongers and fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy, from Obama’s alleged religious leanings to his ancestry. But every major news organization, even the oft-maligned Fox News, has always told the truth about Obama’s citizenship status and religious views. The people I know are well aware of what the major news organizations have to say about the issue; they simply don’t believe them. "
He's talking here about misinformation, that most of the "misinformation" comes, not because people are lying, but because people just don't bother to accept what they're told, but also don't bother to find out the truth.
Trump lies, and the people believe because they want to believe him. Vance has started doing the same. He's said things, like about the UK, that simply wasn't true. A country with 6% Muslims is not a Muslim state, especially when the Monarch and head of state is a white man, and the PM is a white man.
So when reading this book I wondered how a guy like, a guy who can look at the issues and see them for what they are, can then turn around and say things like 'I'm a hillbilly and this is what I think, stuff everything else' and then became a MAGA person, a person who ignores reality and replaces it with his fantasy, like the UK is a Muslim country.
At times I wonder how the person who wrote this book could end up becoming Trump's VP candidate.
"The paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist"
It's basically saying that hillbillies make a fantasy version of the world and live in that. It kind of makes sense that they'd vote for MAGA which is, in effect, a fantasy world created to make people feel like they're in control of their lives.
So, how does someone go from identify this fantasy world created, saying it's a problem, saying it leads to people making bad choices, to going out there and taking advantage of these people making bad choices?
"Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers"
Here he's talking about how people just don't care to work hard any more. He spoke about a friend who quit his job because he didn't want to get up early any more, but then claimed the "Obama economy" effected his life, in a negative way. But Vance is saying it was because of the individual, and not the "Obama economy" (which was part of the recession that started before Obama became President.
"Many try to blame the anger and cynicism of working-class whites on misinformation. Admittedly, there is an industry of conspiracy-mongers and fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy, from Obama’s alleged religious leanings to his ancestry. But every major news organization, even the oft-maligned Fox News, has always told the truth about Obama’s citizenship status and religious views. The people I know are well aware of what the major news organizations have to say about the issue; they simply don’t believe them. "
He's talking here about misinformation, that most of the "misinformation" comes, not because people are lying, but because people just don't bother to accept what they're told, but also don't bother to find out the truth.
Trump lies, and the people believe because they want to believe him. Vance has started doing the same. He's said things, like about the UK, that simply wasn't true. A country with 6% Muslims is not a Muslim state, especially when the Monarch and head of state is a white man, and the PM is a white man.
So when reading this book I wondered how a guy like, a guy who can look at the issues and see them for what they are, can then turn around and say things like 'I'm a hillbilly and this is what I think, stuff everything else' and then became a MAGA person, a person who ignores reality and replaces it with his fantasy, like the UK is a Muslim country.
