i recently lost my job and it’s horrible being in the ‘unemployed’ class – you’re made to feel worthless, you have to take advice from people, perfectly well meaning of course, that are basically encouragement on digging your own grave - i love being in the position where i have to do some fake elizabethian courting...
To play devil’s advocate here, I suspect many rural voters would probably just say they’d like to be left alone more than anything else.
They really buy into that Reagan line about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” being the 9 most terrifying words in the English language. They haven’t seen government programs working effectively around them.
I’m not sure promising more government assistance for rural areas is a winning message, is my point.
We might be able to point out the class divide between republican voters and their representatives, though. That, and highlighting the donors those representatives are really working for.
Conservative philosophy has had generations to settle in these areas, so any messaging to the contrary is going to be an uphill climb.
tl;dr: the actual length of the supermajority was a few months, which they spent working on reform for the healthcare industry, where an estimated $2.4 trillion was spent in 2008.
Also, even the Green Party didn’t add UBI to their platform until 2010.
UBI became broadly well known as a policy in the US in 2020 with Andrew Yang’s campaign. It was on the Green Party’s radar as of their 2010 platform. Neither of those things had happened when the Dems had a roughly 6 month supermajority in 2009.
There are plenty of legitimate concerns to have about Democratic policies without expecting time travel from them.
You may not care what Republicans think, but you’re doing their job for them.
I’d agree that people at the top of the party are cynical and mostly just want tax breaks and to keep government regulations away from their financial investments. Many of the voters do earnestly vote based on Christian nationalism (especially pro-life people) and fear of immigrants, though.
These voters have also been subjected to 20+ years of propaganda from right wing radio and TV networks. Have you ever subjected yourself to that shit? It’s like a constant fear response.
My point is the voters at the bottom may not always have a consistent principled worldview, but they’re not always acting cynically with their votes. Many of them really do believe this stuff.
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...
I’d assume that would translate to fewer, more efficient total man-hours, aka fewer people/jobs overall reaching roughly the same level of output as before
I love gen-Z's attitude towards corporate culture ( lemmy.world )
i recently lost my job and it’s horrible being in the ‘unemployed’ class – you’re made to feel worthless, you have to take advice from people, perfectly well meaning of course, that are basically encouragement on digging your own grave - i love being in the position where i have to do some fake elizabethian courting...
'Nobody's more insulting' to rural voters than Republicans: political scientist ( www.rawstory.com )
how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?
like the suggested medicare for all, but only on a state level
An Iowa fight over a Satanic display reminds us: Republicans believe "free speech" is only for them ( www.salon.com )
there is Indeed a problem ( lemmy.world )
A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks ( www.businessinsider.com )
Retirees and employees at Disney World are losing their perks under the new district board, which says benefits like park passes are unethical.
Take another look at Joe Biden. His is the presidency progressives have been waiting for. ( www.theguardian.com )
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...
4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, according to a McKinsey study ( www.businessinsider.in )