Jim Racheff

Dancing for fools is a fool's errand itself. Life's too short to waste it trying to convince those who are willfully and joyfully ignorant.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I think many rural folks see the system as failing them no matter what, so at least Mr. Trump makes the urbanites and elites cringe and suffer too.

A business owner tested if customers would pay more for American-made. The results were 'sobering.' Afina founder Ramon van Meer wanted to see if people would buy a higher-priced, Made-in-USA version of his filtered shower head — so he ran a test.

Made in America only works if Americans are willing to pay the tax.

The only hostility was to changing social norms, so they can't drop the n-word or slur and slander gay folks. Not sure that's any more hostile than Brown v BOE.

Public servants *begging* and pleading with them to get vaccinated to help reduce deaths in red and blue states weren't being "hostile" any more than a firefighter breaking down a door to rescue someone from a burning building.

Feeling that institutions are hostile to them, after 60+ years of conservatives telling voters that the institutions are hostile towards them, is very different than actually being hostile.

FEMA shows up in both FL and LA. Medicare and Medicaid go to red states and blue states.

Maybe we should ask why - after 50 years of conservatives investing significant marketing dollars in propaganda to undermine faith in public institutions - public trust is low?

This isn’t a messaging problem, it’s a combating propaganda and misinformation problem.

I’ve said this a million times but I’ll say once more: one reason for this is that we don’t live in a country per se. We live in a large place that is 50+ countries stuffed into one, and people in power have apparently settled on incredibly hair-brained ways and systems to address that reality

🧪computational scientist turned social scientist looking forward to joining in science feed :)