I imagine a lot of the stupid people who voted for right wing policies, and are then hurt by them, won't connect those dots

Part of being stupid is the inability to look at facts and draw a reasonable conclusion.

Someone might look at "we cut funding for the town, and now the library sucks" and realize there's a connection. An idiot might instead say "it's the black people's fault"

I really want to drive that home. Some people are stupid. They look at the world and draw bad conclusions. I don't know how to fix that.

It already is. For instance, the majority of rural texas's access to natal care, cardiology, and a few other of the major medical practices is in the same rank as places in central america. It's not just texas either.

It's been hurting them a long long time. But they've got that crab mentality. They believe things can't be better. But as long as they can make someone hurt worse than they believe they are. They're happy.