Inflation is crushing rural America

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 Those same rural voters will deliver a GOP Congress that will immediately pass tax cuts for the rich. So why is there such a huge disconnect between what their reality is and and what their politcal action and advocacy is?

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Those same rural voters will deliver a GOP Congress that will immediately pass tax cuts for the rich. So why is there such a huge disconnect between what their reality is and and what their politcal action and advocacy is?

The GOP isn't the party passing massive spending and relief check packages that are driving inflation through the roof. It's no coincidence that inflation spiked massively right after Biden's American Rescue Plan. And thank god for Manchin for stopping BBB, which would have made it even worse.

  When you pass unfunded tax cuts for the rich, big spending for the military that is exactly what you are doing. The stimulus packages we vote on every few decades are political candy, a big sugar rush that quickly wears off to quiet the anger of the masses after years of unfair government policy that benefits the powerful and connected. Much of the stimulus ends up with the top wealth accumulators and companies. So GOP policies are responsible for inflation we currently face, which is due to supply shock, as much as anybody.

 The GOP solution to every problem is a tax cut, this is not hyperbole but their own policy prescriptions for college affordability, the healthcare system, housing, retirement, childcare, etc.

 You get the government you vote for.

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This is posted like it's some sort of "gotcha" that owns the dumb rubes but, really, if the liberal movement in this country had any sort of non-braindead answer to this question they'd probably be able to consistently hold federal or even statewide power.

 It's not a gotcha because we know the answer. Too many of these voters vote their cultural biases and prejudices as study after study shows. Why they do that is a different question.

 When the other half of the GOP "tax cuts for the rich" platform is a constant fearmongering about nonsense "threats" like CRT, Sharia Law, LGBT, Trans bathrooms bills, anti-Feminism, criminalizing Abortion, or whatever their latest boogeyman is you can't say it's liberals faults for not having better messaging. These rural voters are adults and this is what they choose to support.

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I do believe many left-wing voters (around the world, but especially in this country) secretly hold serious contempt for rural areas, their lifestyles, and their values, and therefore see any sort of negative development in rural America that pushes it’s populace to urban areas as a good thing, where they can accept urban, progressive values.

Sure, but that contempt goes both ways, as another poster pointed out. And whereas Progressives want to see a society where everyone, including rural areas, ultimately prosper while the GOP and Conservatives sue culture war issues to divide us and win votes.

My best friend growing up, his entire family was on Oregon Health Plan (Medicare) and got food stamps that allowed them to survive. They still voted GOP cause of guns and the wall, despite neither issue resulting in policy beneficial to them in any way.

 Yeah, these points are exactly what I was referring to.

 Democrats want universal healthcare, something rural America needs badly and would benefit them not only socially but economically. You can't outsource healthcare jobs or the logistical jobs it needs to support the healthcare system to another country.