Why do Virginia Democrats have no spine?

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Pull funding from rural Virginia until they comply. Richmond and NoVa literally pay for everything and they represent the interests of the majority of Virginians.

Don't let a bunch of cornfields hold back progress.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Pull funding from rural Virginia until they comply. Richmond and NoVa literally pay for everything and they represent the interests of the majority of Virginians.

Don't let a bunch of cornfields hold back progress.

hmm I wonder what the reason for this is....?

Rural areas are the past. The suburbs are the future. States like Pennsylvania in the 2018 governor's race show just how irrelevant Dem losses are in flyover country as long as we make gains in the suburbs.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Pull funding from rural Virginia until they comply. Richmond and NoVa literally pay for everything and they represent the interests of the majority of Virginians.

Don't let a bunch of cornfields hold back progress.

hmm I wonder what the reason for this is....?

Rural areas are the past. The suburbs are the future. States like Pennsylvania in the 2018 governor's race show just how irrelevant Dem losses are in flyover country as long as we make gains in the suburbs.

Long response: This depends on the state and on exactly how bad the rural bleeding is; getting blown out 65-35 is not the same as getting blown out 80-20. Note the Kentucky 2019 governor's race, and note the infamous Chuck Schumer quote about winning two voters on the Philadelphia Main Line or whatever for every voter lost in Western Pennsylvania.
Short response: okey-dokey, wokie

Alright, fine, we shouldn't ignore them. But we shouldn't bend over for them. Gun control will save lives and a rural county with a population of 1,500 shouldn't be holding the state legislature back.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

If rural Virginia does not want to enforce the law, then they should receive no further funding from the state government.

Then they should stop paying taxes.  No services, no tax.  Come and collect the money from millions of angry citizens by force and see how it works out. 

That would work out just fine since the wealth is mainly concentrated in NoVa.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

The flip-side of the "Dems don't care about rural americans" is that Republicans not only don't care about urban americans (especially "urban" americans), they are explicit that they are not "real" Americans at all and not legitimate political actors.

In fact, animosity against "those" people has been the guiding ideology of the GOP since 1968!

Republicans only pretend to care about rural Americans anyway, their policies harm their own base-perhaps more than those policies harm the Democratic base.

Dem policies often do more harm than good to their own base. They just pander enough to make it look like they care.

Is it really "pandering" when our party is the one willing to stick up for minorities when the other could honestly care less about them?