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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.