• @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Liberals and progressives are frustrated with many rural conservatives. Changes we advocate not only help us, our neighbors, the less-advantaged, but would even more benefit rurals. Why are you voting against your best interests, and for the blowhard who more blatantly lies, and wants to “take” more from you in favor of the wealthy? Why would you vote for those vowing to disrupt and destroy many of the programs you rely on? Why do you keep voting for the country to step backwards when you’re the first one getting stepped on?

      • Neuromancer
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        12 years ago

        No, they hate rural people in general.

        Most of the programs the progressive want do not benefit the rural. They want things such as free college, which means the rural people working trades would be paying for the degrees of the people in the cities.

        Very few progressive ideas would benefit the rural areas. That is why you see a backlash from the rural areas. It is a conflict of cultures.

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          22 years ago

          Very few progressive ideas would benefit the rural areas.

          Rural electrification. Farm subsidies. Rural mail delivery. Wind farms. And Texas is currently seeing what happens to rural hospitals and clinics when rural areas decide they don’t want anyone’s tax dollars to subsidize healthcare.

          • Neuromancer
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            02 years ago

            None of those are progressive ideas.

            Rural areas have electric. Farm subsides predate progressives by a hundred or more years.

            Mail is required by law to delivered to rural areas.

            Rural areas don’t want wind farms. That’s urban areas that want wind farms.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              Rural areas have electric.

              And I bet you think they always have. Thank progressives every time you turn on the lights.

              Farm subsides predate progressives by a hundred or more years.

              In the US? Just how young do you think progressive policy is?

              Rural areas don’t want wind farms.

              Then why do farmers keep leasing out land to wind companies? Could it have something to do with the fact that it’s a reliable revenue stream that uses a fraction of the land and you can still farm there?

              Also, you ignored something:

              And Texas is currently seeing what happens to rural hospitals and clinics when rural areas decide they don’t want anyone’s tax dollars to subsidize healthcare.

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                  22 years ago

                  Ok thank the conservative they actually made it happen.

                  Thanks for literally nothing, conservatives. Rural electrification was part of the New Deal. Not a conservative policy by any stretch of the imagination.