These kinds of comments are really insidious in trying to sell all the people of the states of the South as bad. That you should not look at the details, the poor who live in Texas because they have no choice, those who are about the people around them enough to try to make it work and stay. The majority of people in Texas did not support trump.
I don’t suppose they did. In fact, I was most surprised to see only one Trump sign on the highway between Houston and Austin.
I think what most set me off was the billboard for Epoch Times claiming itself as the most accurate news or some such, and then a mile later seeing a Joel Osteen megachurch. It’s just… a totally different world from what I’m used to.
Honestly the people themselves are all great, well intentioned people. It just seems like they are the product of generations of isolation with just the plantation owners, oil barons and the churches as their source of knowledge and little in the way of higher-ed to counter it. That’s not their fault, not in the slightest. That’s cultural level indoctrination and brainwashing. They are victims of it, and even if they do realize it, it’s nearly impossible to break free of that type of community.
These kinds of comments are really insidious in trying to sell all the people of the states of the South as bad. That you should not look at the details, the poor who live in Texas because they have no choice, those who are about the people around them enough to try to make it work and stay. The majority of people in Texas did not support trump.
I don’t suppose they did. In fact, I was most surprised to see only one Trump sign on the highway between Houston and Austin.
I think what most set me off was the billboard for Epoch Times claiming itself as the most accurate news or some such, and then a mile later seeing a Joel Osteen megachurch. It’s just… a totally different world from what I’m used to.
Honestly the people themselves are all great, well intentioned people. It just seems like they are the product of generations of isolation with just the plantation owners, oil barons and the churches as their source of knowledge and little in the way of higher-ed to counter it. That’s not their fault, not in the slightest. That’s cultural level indoctrination and brainwashing. They are victims of it, and even if they do realize it, it’s nearly impossible to break free of that type of community.
They’re not bad people, per se. Just raised into ignorance and manipulation.