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While I do agree with your sentiment I still think it is less about "right mind/mentally ill" and more about uneducated/willful ignorance.
Red states use the vast majority of well fare resources in this country, but time and time again republicans vote against their self interest and slash those resources whenever possible.
Republicans are generally against universal healthcare and free college education, but a large majority of the 18 yo enlisted military come from middle of nowhere towns with no opportunities. They enlist to have a better life with government sponsored healthcare, housing, and education. Meanwhile voting against those same ideals for the general populous. They have always voted against their self interest. Usually they just do it with the idea of keeping someone else down, but they are just kicking themselves.
Edit: also thank you for the stimulating conversation this early in the morning.
guess we need to define what mentally ill actually is, Because in a modern world where information is abundant and you could educate yourself, being this uneducated I think is definitely not a healthy mind. But then again, what do we call the Third Reich? I think it's also uneducated and mentally ill people. In the end I think it's just juggling words... When it's the majority, I guess it can also be the new normal?
And who with a healthy mind to does that?
Anyway, I just see this development in Europe as well, like being completely sealed off to factualism. It's saddening, to see people once with a somewhat healthy mind, now electing parties like AfD in Germany, distrusting science, being hateful and so on. It's kind of a mental disease, I wonder how we can fix that realistically...