I work in a prison (education, don't worry comrades) and the qualifications needed for being a guard are:
- A pulse
- As little empathy as possible
- Zero sense of timeliness
Being an alcoholic helps get your foot in the door, but is not required.
There are essentially zero other decent jobs in the area. Fast food, dollar general, mom and pop pharmacies. Its sad to see so many people that are otherwise decent human beings taking the job because they need to eat.
I agree to an extent that it is foolish, or maybe naive to think that the rural working class will easily ally with the left because of guns or whatever, but its at least as ridiculous as leaning the other way with the "country bumpkin" schtick. Its twitter though, where nuance goes to die. Shitposters shitting on shitposters shitting on shitposters