re: #99 JordanRules

All the folks you said have college degrees right so they were exposed to something else at some point? They aren’t uneducated then? And you’ve informed them of some other perspectives too from time to time right?
Like I’ve said, I wouldn’t listen to Fox if it was all I had. I never was suseptible to a bigoted church. They choose that life because it’s what they want. It fits generations of bigotry that they continue to choose as a family legacy even if it kills them via the policies their votes empower.

That paper has the AP stories, I’m sure the print version is a bit different but it doesn’t appear much different than the right wing Arizona Republic that we grew up with in this here big city. Yes there are other options but at some point a remote town of 124 people is going to be just that. And the people in it are going to be bigoted or not, you know there are plenty in tiny towns who aren’t.

No, not all the folks have college degrees; we have a significant number above average in my village, but that means out of roughly sixty adults total in the village maybe a quarter have college degrees. In the Panhandle at large, that percentage is significantly lower.

Bigotry is learned behaviour. My mother pulled me out of Maryland schools in second grade and moved me to Michigan when my father was stationed there, because of Jim Crow segregation in the schools.

Given time, I suspect that a good amount of bigotry will pass. But to do that, ya gotta have more than one message. Our paper as you note has AP stories. (It has UPI stories as well.) However, the editor is the person who decides which AP or UPI stories to print (hence nothing at all on the Russia fiasco).

If you try to talk to a lot of people outside the two tiny cities (Scottsbluff and Alliance) that don’t have cable service, you will be stared at like you have three heads if you try to claim the GOP seems to be hip deep in Russian ties: They don’t believe it because nothing here tells them about it.

Those of us with such things as Internet are not enough of the population to make a significant dent.

Heck, one of the reasons I have Internet (and pay about 5% of my income for it) is so I can get news from something other than either a hard right wing source or an extreme right wing source.