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Do they even know that??
Being good for a group of people is not the same as them knowing that you've been good for them. This is eternally where Democrats fall flat on their faces.
I think think that's what this propaganda piece is aiming to accomplish: hopefully it will make them believe it.
Republicans have spent literally decades convincing these people they are the best for them. They have honed that false image and every Republican knows to fall in-line and go after these folks. They hammer that point home every chance they get.
Democrats have a couple of campaign events here or there every couple of years, maybe a couple of articles printed, and then they go back to endlessly pandering to teeny, tiny demographic groups that couldn't get anyone elected.
What drives me crazy is the purity ponies that will go after anyone and everyone (and each other) over navel-gazing bullshit like "intersectionalities" and oppression olympics and so on...
The farmer/decentralized tech enthusiast cross section is probably small. Actually, given their hurdles in jailbreaking tractors and right to repair being so important to so many, it could be higher than average. Huh.
The actual article is in The Hill
To be fair, Republican policies have been horrible for them and they don’t know about that, but that’s two sides of the same coin. I don’t know that liberals have really been able to insert themselves into the rural propaganda space like conservatives have. All they need is some charismatic guy/gal in a folksy voice to talk about family values and the Bible, then just steer it in the direction of loving thy neighbor and taking care of your fellow man. Liberal/progressive values need to be normalized in rural areas and connected to the values they already have. Right now all they’re really hearing are conservative voices.
It probably doesn't help that most of the media targeting them is owned by people that want the regulatory state to go back to where it was in the late 1800s so they can become modern-day Rockefellers and Carnegies
Conservatives taking over AM radio stations in the 90s has had an underappreciated and disastrous effect on this country.
Of course not. Their media is controlled by them. It may be worse than fox now.
Honestly, Lemmy is probably worse than Reddit at challenging a comment like this, but it's better than the shit my father in law turns on when he drives my child around. Challenge it.
How can you tell others to challenge it when you can't even stand up to your FIL?
The power posters tend to be the same Reddit shills and eternal optimists that dominated the old platforms. Who the hell actually even reads The Hill on the reg, anyway? Much less feels the urge to repost it to social media as frequently as this guy? He's been on the site for 3 months and already posted nearly 2k times, all from a handful of mainstream news outlets.
Big number go up things get better. What else do you need to know?
Falling literacy rates? Rising infant mortality? Declining life expectancy? Pollution? 100-degree weather stretching into the Fall? Collapsing infrastructure and rising cost-of-living? Ballooning household debt in the face of wages that continue to fall relative to the value of assets and equities?
Stfu, idiot. You just don't understand economics. Life in the de-industrialized midwest has never been better. Say thank you and go back into your living holes. Be grateful things aren't worse.