As someone who has lived in Indiana for 31 years, if you actually talk to people without mentioning R or D, a large percentage of their values like up with Democrats. But as soon as you compare that to democratic policies, they immediately go into excuses for why they’d never vote for a Democrat. Abortion is really the only Republican policy that they support, and even then a lot of them still support it “but not the way the Democrats do, up to the moment before birth”.
The issue is that Democrats practically ignore us here so there’s no information campaigns to correct all the misinformation they get from Fox news and the like.
It’s really frustrating going back to my rural bumfuck town and seeing all the legitimately good people who have been brainwashed into Republican support by friends and neighbors.
As someone who has lived in Indiana for 31 years, if you actually talk to people without mentioning R or D, a large percentage of their values like up with Democrats. But as soon as you compare that to democratic policies, they immediately go into excuses for why they’d never vote for a Democrat. Abortion is really the only Republican policy that they support, and even then a lot of them still support it “but not the way the Democrats do, up to the moment before birth”.
The issue is that Democrats practically ignore us here so there’s no information campaigns to correct all the misinformation they get from Fox news and the like.
It’s really frustrating going back to my rural bumfuck town and seeing all the legitimately good people who have been brainwashed into Republican support by friends and neighbors.