Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard has taken a swipe at JD Vance, suggesting that Donald Trump’s Republican running mate has “changed” since he first met him.
Earlier this year, Vance was selected to be Trump’s possible vice president in the 2024 US presidential election race – but before his political career, he was known for being the author of memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which was later adapted into a Netflix film of the same name.
Since being announced as Trump’s running mate, Vance has been criticised for comments that saw him refer to women, such as Trump’s presidential rival Kamala Harris, as “childless cat ladies”. This prompted swift backlash and accusations of sexism, with Vance claiming the remarks were made in “sarcasm”.
It’s is possible to understand the right and not be pulled right.
The people who are pulled, are pulled because they have something in them that resonated with the right’s hate filled ideology.
The ideology isn’t that compelling and the right wing voters are not victims. They are all active participants in the spread of hated.
They see themselves as victims, their ideology is based in their own imagined victimhood. It is foolish to actually except their victimhood, that is their ideology tugging on you.
In my observation portions of conservative ideology may start with a valid premise or fact, but its quickly distorted or outright lied about with all supporting statements resulting in cesspool of vitriol that is today’s conservative ideology. It requires consumers to accept the base premise without the follow-on critical thinking.
One common example I see a lot from them is something like “We don’t have enough money [at this exact second] to fix all the problems that exist”. That is actually a truthful statement. We have lots of problems and fixing them all RIGHT NOW would be monumentally expensive beyond any amount of money we have.
The critical thinker would look at what money we do have, triage the many problems we have begin allocated what we have immediately to the most critical needs. In parallel, new funding sources should be sought to bring more money to bear on the vast number of remaining problems.
Instead the conservative answer is “because we can’t fix ALL the problems RIGHT NOW we should fix NONE of them and give what little money we do have on hand to people that are rich who already have the most money and the fewest problems”.
You cannot even bridge this subject with conservatives in my experience. There’s no generating more income to the government through taxes or fees, only “we cannot do this without debt so obviously we need to cut programs”. In their turd of an opinion, raising revenue is never an option when it comes to a debt crisis…even though it’s a patently obvious solution to the “problem”.
Do you buy the books? Do you read their books?