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In reply to the discussion: I believe that Democrats/Liberals/Progressives need to face the absolute fact [View all]Amishman
(5,845 posts)I live in a red, rural part of PA. My wife's family is mostly Republican with a sprinkling of indies and libertarians. My wife and I are literally the only Democrats at family gatherings (which are frequent and huge).
Other than two older men and one woman (remember, big family) on that side, I don't think they are racist or misogynist.
Quite a few don't really like Trump very much, but will vote for him again.
Why? Because they simply do not want what we are selling.
○ The EPA and environmental rules are really disliked. I still regularly hear people ranting about CARB gas cans, the design changes mandated for new wood stoves, 2.5 GPM faucets, stormwater management environmental rules, and urea systems on diesels.
○ Gun safety, particularly bolder proposals involving bans and/or mandatory buybacks, is a non-starter for quite a few of them.
○ Any non-binary view of gender is viewed as mental illness.
○ Lots of skepticism towards taxes and spending, and generally viewing government as incompetent. Just about anything that involves expanding the role of government is viewed as wasteful and wasting their money. There is a general (shortsighted) attitude that they just want government (especially at the federal level) to leave them alone.
○ Abortion isn't that important one way or the other with those I know, but I kind of suspect this is not typical.
Add that all up, and even if they don't like Trump - they don't like many things we are offering even more.