They are voting, just not for their own best interests. There is just a huge disconnect between what they want to believe, and what really is. They don’t seem to understand those whom they vote for, always seem to betray them. They then take their moral outrage out everyone but themselves.

33% of eligible voters DID NOT vote in the 2020 Presidential election.

That’s true.

Genuinely, who do you mean by "they"? Many rural poor would benefit from the option to move to low cost urban housing. But I haven't seen much reporting about poor city dwellers voting against their interest, and in America there's bipartisan hostility at the city level to helping poor residents.

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Thanks for sharing this, I hadn't seen it

Also, your book sounds interesting. I am adding it to my reading list.

Thank you so much, that means a lot

The only way to truly understand the world is read intellectually and converse openly with good people. P.S. I am ordering it from someone OTHER than Amazon.

I try to share useful information. I saw it during my mourning read. I have found reading, even skimming, more informative than TV &radio news.

Many of the economically disadvantaged especially in rural areas don’t understand how they benefit from programs that they perceive as “urban” (e.g. Black programs) like housing and food assistance.

Oh yeah absolutely. Which is part of the reason I asked. So much of our political coverage codes "rural" (and "working class") as white voters with agency, while treating poor Black people who live in cities as passive beneficiaries of those programs. It does lead to misunderstandings.

Absolutely.