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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35232665
I say, this, after weighing the words carefully in my mind, and with a profound sense of empathy for what it means, but – good. Maybe most of the people in these areas are so deeply ingrained that they can’t tell right from left, but at some point when the pain is too much, at some point when the desperation and bitterness and anger is leading to no action and no results, at some point they will realize that their mayors who are Republican and their county representatives are Republican and their state legislators are Republican and their governors are Republican and their congressional representatives are Republican and their president is Republican. At some point there would be a break, hopefully, in their Great Wall of ignorance and stupidity for some light to shine through. And while I fervently agree with most of them on how much I hate the national Democratic Party and it’s neoliberal corporate subserviency, That’s something different has to come about for us to get somewhere out of this hell scape.
Most supporters of the Nazis went to the grave believing their cause was just. Whether it was on the battlefield, at the end of a firing squad, or decades later of old age.
They let go of their aspirations and public support because they were forced to, at the end of a gun.
People have been waiting for this break to happen since the 90s.
It’s not happening.
At some point there would be a break, hopefully, in their Great Wall of ignorance and stupidity for some light to shine through.
There won’t be. The media that they consume will just tell them that Democrats or Mexicans or Muslims or trans athletes are to blame for their problems, and they’ll believe it.
A lot of them are completely brainwashed by Fox News. It's their primary form of entertainment. They will die believing the propaganda. They're a lost cause unfortunately.
That would require educating yourself and questioning the entire paradigm you have lived in your entire life. And this hypothetical awakening would only happen after being faced with the consequences of falling further into poverty. Big doubt it.
And they'll blame The Libs like always
Fox News will and they will repeat it.
Yea, if those libs didn't skip out on voting Kamala cause she's pro genocide, this never would have happened!
I'd add /s, but somehow I see maga fucks being okay with this excuse.
I can't tell what's happening here, are you being sassy because people aren't pro genocide?
Hey look, the perennial straw man machines are here.
"The turkeys in red hats voted for Thanksgiving"
Yup. Red states will suffer the worst, if it's not the grants, it will be the measles.
Rural recessions generally mean people will go to the cities, and that'll be fun because that means: crime's going up!
Good.
Better for the environment anyway.
Rewild the rural landscape back to forests and prairies.
They'll pave it over and accelerate the destruction of arable land while also screaming about population decline.
Pave it for what purpose with what money? No one wants to park in the middle of no where.
There is a lot of rural land and it is worthless, that's why they cannot fund themselves.
No, they cannot fund themselves because of corruption, and lack of funding and will (and competent governance) to fix it.
I maintain that there simply is not enough tax base for these areas to fund themselves but you've done a wonderful job moving the goal posts beyond anything the article is stating; they rely on federal funds to operate.
What data do you have to back up corruption?
Keep in mind there are far more small towns than large towns. As a ratio it seems unlikely that small towns are more likely to be corrupt than cities.
The question then is what funds are they using to facilitate this corruption. My guess is federal and state funds because again, they lack the tax base.
