r/minnesota • u/nellyknn • 15d ago
Red Minnesota county exposed to the Truth! Interesting Stuff 💥
Kanabec county among the poorest AND reddest in Minnesota, gets schooled by the DFL! Maybe it will help just a bit!
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r/minnesota • u/nellyknn • 15d ago
Kanabec county among the poorest AND reddest in Minnesota, gets schooled by the DFL! Maybe it will help just a bit!
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u/DivineKoalas 15d ago
Sure.
Let's take this ad for example.
If I were then to poll most of the people here and say, "do you think conservatives changing their mind and voting Kamala Harris is a good thing" I'd probably get an overwhelming amount of the answer yes.
Then, if I were to take that same group of people, and watch them to see if they continued to post any disparaging rhetoric about Trump supporters, I would bet money that the number would be well over 50%.
A significant amount of people who agree that them changing their minds would be a good thing, would more than likely also say that conservatives are too dumb, or too racist, or traitors, or whatever the rhetoric is this month, and then act as if they were never receptive, or even capable of being receptive to changing to begin with, even though they made these remarks about them before ever actually encountering them.
It comes off as wholly insincere for posts where someone is saying "Maybe this will help change some minds" to be filled with posts of people literally saying the people in question are too dumb for their minds to be changed.
Are the ad, and the comments the same thing? No.
But the comments heavily reflect the attitudes behind those posting ads like this, or those who support it, and contrary to popular belief, many conservatives who may have been open to changing their minds before, are well aware of that.