The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(01-30-2022, 06:46 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-29-2022, 11:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Are you choosing freedom or still going along with fascism/communism these days? America is deciding or already has decided who (which side) stands for what these days.

Looking at it by the willingness to solve problems against the save money by leaving them unsolved position, it seems rather clear.  The Republican position often involves death by Covid, prejudice, attacking democracy, ruining the environment, supporting a criminal and letting the infrastructure fail.  I know the problems are less to nonexistent in the rural areas, but they are clear enough in the more population intensive areas.

The problems in rural America are different but no less pressing.  Here in Virginia, rural schools have no funding and dangerously outdated buildings (some on the verge of outright failure).  Worse, there are fewer work opportunities than in the past, and many jobs that do exist are dangerous and underpaid.  It's no wonder that rural areas are losing population.  I think those stresses are triggering a lot of the resentment politics.  

The lowest paid areas of my state voted to elect a venture capitalist with a net worth of half a Billion dollars to the governor's mansion by margins of 60% and greater.  Why would the oppressed (they are, whether they admit it or not) vote to elect a guy whose chosen profession is buying businesses, draining them of resource, saddling then with debt and, oh yeah, firing a large percentage of the workforce?

These folks need to aim their anger at the ones making their lives miserable, but those same forces have the narrative the poor want to hear.