Complaining that those rural folk should step out of their depressed economy/unemployment bubble and vote with their heart reeks of the kind of elitism that lost the Dems the election in the first place. It's easy to say "those people should have educated themselves and learned how bad a candidate they voted for really is!"
Maybe the question you should be asking is, what if they knew all that anyways, and still voted for him over Hillary? What does that tell you about Hillary? Better yet, what does it tell you that six million Dems couldn't even get behind their own candidate? Easier to turn it around: "what does it say about a person that has voted in a racist, bigoted billionaire?"
We could just write it off as sexism and racism and call it a day, because that makes things easier to digest. A battle of Good vs. Evil, and oh no, Evil won last week, and look at the chaos. If only those people in Michigan knew they were voting for Hitler. Now America will fall into the depths of depravity. What a racist, sexist America we live in. Easy, right?
Maybe our society has conditioned us to compartmentalize stuff like this into extreme good and bad. I don't really know. It has lead to such a breakdown of conversation that I feel like I can only talk to my friends about it in a great discussion because we empathize with each other, whether we realize it or not, despite us actually having significantly different political beliefs. The thing is, we all have our reasons, our own motivations, and there's much work to be done on both sides in understanding each other. This massive divide helps no one.
