The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(12-16-2019, 07:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, I think it's very obvious to most everyone these days that the nasty Democrats aren't helping him (Trump), aren't going to help him  and aren't really into the idea of helping out the American country either at this point. Well, there isn't much that Americans can do about them at this point. Lets face it, the bulk of Americans don't live in their areas these days for obvious reasons. The group of nasty Democrats has already gone to far over the edge and is now already on the path towards whatever fate has in store for them down the road. AOC comes from a nasty Democratic district and represents a nasty Democratic district. So, what happens to her? What happens to her voters and her financial supporters? Does America care? What happens to Obama's old mentor/ preacher? What happens to Al Sharpton and all his inner city supporters? Does America care?

Well, you managed to write-off the majority of the country as not-America, so who exactly IS America? The only groups with majority support for Trumpism are Republicans (90%), the Silent and GI generations (~60%), men (~55%) and rural women (still less than 50%, but a lot more than the 20% among non-rural women). Adding them together as a voting block (which they typically can't be, but we're just talking here), Trump loses the popular vote -- more than last time. So it comes down to voter suppression and the Electoral College for Trump, and suppressing emerging demographics in the House. The Senate is still tilted toward the rural vote, so maybe that's a win for the GOP without cheating. In the end, though, none of the GOP power players gives a rat's ass about the little people they represent, as their actions of long standing show.

Classic-Xer Wrote:Hmmm...Poverty is high, education levels are low and mobility is near zero in that economic region for what reason these days? Could draconian liberal policies and liberal resentment of them for not voting the way they should for many years be the reason? What's your view of the so called smelly Walmart people/ icky rural voters or poorer working class people doing whatever it takes as far as working remedial jobs for a living and making enough of a living to support meager lifestyles/ existence in order to remain financially independent and remain off welfare programs these days?

No, the causes of rural collapse are de-industrialization (a GOP policy), decline in the use of fossil fuels (capitalism at work) and visceral dislike of the "snobby elites" (better know as the college educated). I see no liberal policies at work creating any of that. I do see a lot of anti-education rhetoric in the churches, and lock-step acceptance of the GOP as "their party". It's tribal … like football.