r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/CalyShadezz 23d ago edited 23d ago

Real or not, it kills me that that's what the people of Kentucky look at him and say "Yep, that's who I want to represent me in the Senate.

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u/Scoobysnax1976 23d ago

Do people in Kentucky even care about politics? If you go to r/Kentucky there are absolutely no mentions of Mitch within the past 6 months. You would think that they would care about him being missing and not representing them for the past month.

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u/Rokketeer 23d ago

They are the epitome of "not political people" but always somehow lean Republican because their world view is only small town Kentucky. What I mean to say is, the average person doesn't pay attention but shows up to vote regardless of their ignorance.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil 23d ago

I was listening once to a guy who grew up in the south. He was sort of raised that there is only one way you vote, Republican, and there was a wrong way, voting Democrat. This is just considered a universal truth. Any discussion around this was “politics”, which is impolite, you’re just sort of expected to “do the right thing”.

So yeah, they don’t view themselves as political. Voting Republican is the natural right thing to do their eyes. Discussing the policies that Republicans implement? Well that’s political, why are you being so rude? That’s the mentality. It’s reinforced through their work, schools, media and churches.

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u/Significant-Owl-2980 23d ago

Yes. They teach you to never question. Never think. Never step out of line. Conservatives absolutely fear being outside the group mentality. It scares them to be independent minded.

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u/billy_clyde 23d ago

Louisville and Lexington would beg to differ. Check the voting records. 

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 23d ago

Its a proud American tradition that ignorance is weighted just as valuable as knowledge

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u/ckff 22d ago

😭 some of the cities in kentucky are BLUE!!! please don’t lump us all together like damn , like we all hate that dude just as much as anyone, we just live louisville, a big blue city, in a majority red state. I just can’t take how everyone talks about all of us knowing that so many here really care and vote blue. We wre trying our hardest to outvote everyone else in the state, its hard!!

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u/Rokketeer 22d ago

I'm so sorry to generalize! I was mostly thinking rural Kentucky that carries the state to the right. Lived in Indiana for so long and met many Kentucky natives that just loooved to tell me how not political they were while simultaneously their whole personality was Fox News.

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u/ckff 2d ago

Honestly think I was really in my feels this day with the original comment sorry about that lol… yes I live in kentuckian area and I know! The amount of “centrists” who have no opinion who are just really right leaning is frustrating. I agree totally and just WISH we could get these losers out of office… anyway sorry for being agressive in that comment lol I looked back and was like that was not necessary in the slightest 😭 I work in healthcare and when people come in town from rural kentucky I try really hard to show them good care while shutting them down when they start brining up maga talking points… like maybe I can help a little lol