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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.

Ok, good, so does that mean you'll continue to support Democratic policies in the future? Because rural America has held urban and suburban America in a goddamn stranglehold for the last 23 years and we could really use some economic relief ourselves.

It should be clear from the evidence thus far that conservative policies don't benefit anybody except the ultra-wealthy.

Rural American will still vote against it because it’s a put in place by a Democrat.

In my experience, the bar for a godsend is very low in rural America. If you are hungry there and a McDonalds is still open, it’s a godsend. If they bring back reruns of Andy Griffith at 3 o’clock on channel 2 it’s a godsend.

The picture of a pair of boomer ass landowners is not helping them with the message

I personally think the biggest driving factor in the rural/city divide that causes rural populations to skew conservative is services.

Rural communities are criminally underserviced. It makes sense why from a logistical view. When people are gathered in small areas, they are easy to provide services to. It's much easier to provide quality power, plumbing, roads, essential services, and prettyich everything to high density areas. It's more effective to service cities.

It's hard to provide reliable services to rural areas. With everyone spread out so much, you need longer wires, longer roads, longer pipes, more people, more everything. So it makes sense to allocate less to these areas. But it's also horrific.

These are people. It makes perfect sense why rural communities distrust and resent government, and oppose increased spending on social services. They don't see the benefits. They see money being spent on things they can't use. Then manipulative politicians swoop in and tell them that these services are bad.

The solution is to suck it up and give everyone equal access to services. Spend more money on rural communities, even if it's less efficient. Because they are people and deserve roads and hospitals and internet equivalent to cities.

These motherfuckers are pulling out all the gaslighting techniques. Things are only doing well for the wealthy, the poor and working class not so much

No! We need to make all these people go bankrupt! Then banks can take the land and sell it to large corporations that has no ties to the land and staff it with immigrants on "tourist visas" which when they expire we can treat as slaves! That is the only way we can decreases the cost of a large fry at McDonald's by 10 cents!

I used to live in an extremely rural area, and it was probably about 3:1 Republican to Democrat. And almost all of the people were on the dole in some form or another, thanks to the Big Government that they hated so much, most especially the Republicans that I knew.

It's almost as if the more they were personally benefiting from services from mostly Democratic policies, the more they resented "those libruls" and voted even harder for the far right.

now if anyone would believe it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In simplest terms, Bidenomics arguably is the most significant departure in 40 years from the “free market revolution” that rose to dominance in the 1980s — a dramatic alteration to our country’s economic trajectory.

Family farmers have been driven out of business in droves by ever-growing multinational companies running massive factory farms that pollute the air and water in local communities.

And a continual wave of tax cuts that too often benefit only the wealthiest and most powerful have placed an incredible strain on the essential infrastructure that rural people need to live and work, including schools, healthcare, internet and roads.

They developed a policy roadmap that can rebuild local communities; elected leaders of all stripes would benefit from adopting this popular agenda that connects strongly with rural voters.

The combination of executive and congressional action since Biden took office — from the American Rescue Plan, to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to the CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act and key executive action promoting competition and protecting workers — presents greater potential for revitalizing rural communities than anything since the New Deal.

These policies rest on the indisputable fact that everyday people — small-business owners, family farmers, workers, even unpaid caregivers — drive our economy.

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