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SanAndreasX said:

sc94597 said:

People's bellies will wake them up. No individual in politics is safe from the beast that is American consumerism. It is the real religion of the U.S. Evangelicals, for all their loudness, are a small minority that are dwindling in numerical power. Trump didn't win because of them. 

The problem with comparing the U.S to developing countries is that people become more angry when they lose something they've been accustomed to having than when they lose some potentiality.  

The hissy-fit that was the post-Covid right-wing shift of the American population was because Walmarts are no longer 24 hours and service workers no longer want to be abused and quit. Imagine what happens when most Americans are actually skipping meals.

We'll see. I spent a lot of my formative years in the Bible Belt, thankfully my parents carried their West Coast values with them and didn't raise me in the church. You underestimate how deep the religious grooming runs in that part of the country. 

I don't underestimate it, but you can't win or maintain national power by having the bible belt alone, even if religious grooming is heavy there. 

There aren't enough EC votes in the South. 

That is why Trump had to appeal to the Rust Belt, modern Florida, Appalachia, etc. The populations of these states vote on what they think their material interests are first and foremost. This is also the basis of the right-populist perspectives surrounding race and immigration. 

I grew up in semi-rural appalachia. The transition from voting for Democrats -> Trump has been purely about material interests here, not religion.