I totally understand that someone who grew up in some small town in Oklahoma or Nebraska is going to have totally different life experiences than me, and that they’ll probably have different values. I don’t have to agree with them about religion or reproductive choice or gay marriage or what it means to be an American, and I can respect that they’re coming from a totally different environment with a lot of different assumptions. What I can’t quite understand, however, is how these small, rural parts of the country have gone absolutely insane in the post-9/11 world. The way the Republicans who represent these areas are acting is so unhinged from any semblance of reality that I find it hard to explain. I mean, I understand that these folks are absolutely marinating their brains in bullshit 24/7 by listening to hate radio and Fox News, but can that really explain the totality of this onslaught of Stupid?

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