12-02-2019, 07:08 PM
(12-02-2019, 06:20 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-01-2019, 03:02 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:Dude, we all have access to the national broadcast channels ABC, NBC, CBS and most likely Fox too these days. What's your opinion of the urban areas that vote Democratic by margins of 8 to 2 these days? Do you have a problem with that issue? I don't a problem with that at all and I'm pretty sure the Republicans don't have an issue with that either.(11-29-2019, 05:16 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: "you are expected to conform and vote Republican"? What kind of crap is that? Doesn't America have secret ballots?
Yes, and yet these areas do vote Republican by margins of 4 or 5 to one. That's conformity. If you don't agree, you keep your mouth shut and have no influence. Those 4 or 5 to 1 stats are quite verifiable in most rural and small-town, white-dominated counties in America. You can check it out. And people in those areas do not have access to much besides Fox News, Christian broadcasts and right-wing talk radio, and they are more susceptible to conspiracy theory and fake news, which they take as gospel.
I do have a problem, because the Democrats represent just the normal range of opinion, while the Republicans represent an extreme right-wing malevolent point of view. If the Republicans weren't so extreme and opposed to every social advancement or solution, then the urban areas would be less extreme today, as they were before Reagan. My county, for example, supported President Ford in 1976. It only gave Trump about 20% of the vote.
The right-wing white rural folks do not watch ABC, NBC or CBS, but only Fox News. They are ostracized if they watch anything else. And even if they do watch the older networks, these stations only present neutral, superficial bare-bones news of daily events rather than the slanted broadcasts of commentary on Fox. And they have very little in the way of talk shows or news magazines like Fox has anymore; most of them have been converted into murder mysteries.