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I know this community is sort of for mocking these people but if this part of the article doesnt show how hard some of these republicans lives are then I dont know what does:
"“In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier."
Maybe we should be helping each other instead of kicking people while they are down, so they might not have voted for trump to begin with.
Most of the Republican base (blue collar) votes against their best interest because Republican politicians appeal to their bigotry, hate, and fear. They voted for a fascist who clearly telegraphed he was going to do fascist things. These are generally not good people. It's theoretically possible for them to be rehabilitated, but I don't know how that would happen.
He tricked them into thinking he'd help them out, same as the democrats do and have done. Hard to blame them at this point. I think we might have replaced racism with partyism in America, the way y'all are acting.
I'm done feeling sorry for people who can't think for themselves. These results are because of someone's actions, and those actions were not mine. You want someone to help? Vote for a government that will help make people smarter not strip away their education and leave a bunch of dumbfounded idiots behind
Ever hear the saying "you can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped"? We voted to help them (or at least not tear everything down whether it was warranted or not), they voted for everyone to be miserable instead, and misery won.
They literally did try to vote in their own best interests. Noone has their back politically, thats the point. If you can't see that then you might not be as tuned in as you think.
You can't both sides this one. Biden is a massive headass for not stepping down and allowing a Democratic primary, but he didn't abandon rural America. Look at where the majority of the infrastructure money was headed. Remind me again, was it Trump's concepts of a health care plan that was a lifeline for rural hospitals, or was that the ACA?
For all their flaws as a party, Democrats don't generally ignore rural livelihood, and they certainly do a better job of catering to it than Republicans. They're just not as good at paying rural lip service on the places these people get their media. If you thought Democrats actually only cared about they/them, you're not in a position to question how tuned in anyone is to politics. If you're just talking about how rural voters feel about the parties, then sure, but nobody was disagreeing with that, just calling them naive for thinking that way.
See thats the problem, money is always headed to rural america but never gets there. I'd be happy if you had some better examples of how democrats have actually helped farmers in the past decade.
It takes time to spin up projects and get them approved, meaning the visible progress on these sorts of bills are usually back loaded. Half of the funding was announced, but weirdly enough the person in charge of disbursing those funds isn't Biden anymore. Who's responsible for making sure those funds actually get disbursed now? I'll give you a hint: if it doesn't make it to rural America, they shot themselves in the foot.
You also didn't address the impact that the ACA had on keeping rural hospitals afloat. I guess health care access isn't important to farmers until they no longer have it. Neither party is rushing to increase the already pretty generous farm subsidies, but only one party is making their inputs significantly more expensive while reducing demand for their outputs. I sure hope those farmers aren't importing potash from the neighbor that we decided to initiate a trade war with. Farmers are finding out how exposed they were to global trade markets and the asymmetric effects of retaliatory tariffs. It sure looks like Democrats have been helping farmers all along by simply not being Republican.
Helping and exploiting have different goals even if they overlap on method from time to time.
They voted for Cheetolini so he would hurt others because they are sadistic assholes. Now they’re complaining that the bully in chief is bullying them. They deserve every inch of this.
Conservatives aren't failed liberals, and liberals aren't failed conservatives. At some point, like now, we have to let them fall to their consequences and be done with it.
Five suicides are hard? No. Five suicides are consequence.
Hardly a consequence, there's 75 million of them.
Sucks to suck. Financially stable (i.e. blue) states could bail them out today and in a week, they'll harbor just as much resentment for them damn librulls as they did before.
Probably more once they soak in a Kremlin-concocted marinade of lies about how the Democrats did it to them in the first place and forced them to shamefully beg for relief. Oh, but also, they're self-made gumptiony bootstrap-puller-uppers who made it all on their own by the sweat of their brow. Can't forget that.
You thinking its all about the money is part of the problem I think. But what do I know?
Emphasis added. There are more examples, I didn't want to repost the whole article. I brought up money because it's sort of a major driving factor and the specific thing that they are asking for.
Its not asking for money for greed though, its so they can survive and provide for their families.
I'm not sure where you're going or, to an extent, how you got there. What do you think I was talking about before with the possibility of blue states bailing out red ones (as per tradition)?
That's the "survive and provide for their families" money, where are you seeing "money for greed" coming into play?
They weren’t kicked when they were down. They actively rejected policy and party that could have helped them or their kids. They kicked themselves in the head and want to be bailed out.
Oh I see, so republicans are doing very well in this country, and not awful like everyone else.
I have no idea how you got that from what I said.
Those folk started to commit suicide when they voted for the orange rapist/felon.
Reminds me of that bash.org quote: "The biggest problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying we should kill the dumb, but why don't we take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
Except in this case we kept on putting warnings and they shot themselves anyway.
Why dont you turn your other cheek so they can black both your eyes. Stop supporting stupidity.
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Wow look how much better than them you are, such a good smart boy.
Yeah, golden rule and all, but they have absolutely earned the contempt they're getting, with interest.
Those are some rookie numbers, gonna need to pump them up.
Good riddance.
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