• Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    Rural people: Take us seriously!

    Also rural people: Explain it to us like we are five!

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      There’s nothing wrong with explaining a concept simply, it anything being able to explain it simply shows true understanding.

      The problem I see is a lot of rural folk don’t want you to explain it simply, they’re too prejudiced and dead set in they’re ways.

      They may ask you to explain it simply but they do so to see you stumble so they can mock you.

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        Examples:

        LOCK HER UP

        BUILD THAT WALL

        STOP THE STEAL

        You need to break everything down to Three Syllables so it can be rhythmically chanted easily.

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        Successful social movements requires

        people who are willing to make the effort to understand what’s going on. Rural people can do that. If they don’t want to, nothing you can say or do will change that. They can simply ask "what do you mean?

        You cannot simultaneously think that you have to break down politics so that a five-year-old can understand it AND take people seriously as adults and why would anyone want to listen to you if you treat them like children?

        American politics is on a downward spiral as each party tries to shorten and simplify the message to the point where there is no message except “vote (for) me, everyone else (is) bad”.

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          Explaining something to someone like they are a child does not mean you have to treat them like a child??? What are you talking about

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          Everyone starts at the same place of understanding, zero.

          Just because someone doesn’t understand something doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be taken seriously.

          But people have to be willing to learn.

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      Rural people: We don’t want govt to mess with us!

      Also rural people: please help us during natural disasters, give us tax breaks, and bring us basic necessities like hospitals!

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      And I’m sure you’ve read all volumes of Capital without ever needing a dictionary or even to Google something.