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It's sublimated class resentment. People resent things that are perceived as coming down upon them from a coastal rich Ivy League educated elite that is perceived as holding them in contempt.

It all just sounds like rich people in private jets flying around telling them to use less energy to save the planet.

There is of course too much inequality, but it's not because of EVs or phasing out gas stoves.

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Most Americans already have electric stoves, and its disproportionately higher income people who still cook with gas.

I know this is all based more on vibes than facts though.

“perceived as holding them in contempt”?

They have been told explicitly in prime time TV that they are held in contempt. It’s not an issue of perception on this front.

If you want to, you can find coastal elites that dislike anything, even say electric stoves. So what, why do people have all these grievances because of a sense that someone somewhere doesn't like their choices? I'm from the south, I'm positive people there don't like some of my my life choices, I don't go around feeling mad about it. Blaming coastal elites just seems like an excuse to ignore evidence of problematic choices - yet that view also probably doesn't help.

It's a persecution complex. That's how how get members of a majority religion absurdly claiming they are "being persecuted" when reminded that other religions exist.

"We can't even say 'Merry Christmas ' anymore" is not persecution.

Especially when it's other Christians who popularized "Happy Holidays" as they felt Christmas was being overly commercialized.

They understand that the contempt is merited. It only makes them more angry.

Thank you for proving my point.

The contempt is real, not perceived.

This contempt is the flip side of the freedoms granted by the constitution. The government is not allowed to enforce certain behaviors. That social control is left to the public itself.

The bizarrely irrational behavior from the red states doesn't even make sense in its own terms. If this doesn't merit contempt, nothing does.

Civil war any time soon?

That’s ironic because gas stoves are actually only the majority in California and places around New York, ie literally the coastal elite.

that's a bold claim cotton, care to back it up with some actual data? I've lived in several places across the country, they seemed to all have gas an eletric in a mix.

Sure: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/29082/most-common-type-of...

Thank you and interesting. I lived in St. Louis, there was a lot of natural gas. But its next to illinois which is over 80% so wonderi f there's a % in stl not anywhere else.

In that chart, gas stoves are only 51-70% even in Illinois. The 89% label you’re seeing is percent of electric stoves in nearby state of Tennessee.

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