As the years pass by, America's farming and small manufacturing towns become more and more foreign

[Nimble_Idea]

to me. They will continue to slide further in the minority as the big Urban and Suburban areas grow. Their steadfast intransigence of denying people of color their rights and voter suppression tactics will cost them a seat at the table for America. They seem to want to die out on opium and stay in the mountains like their Taliban mountain dwelling soul brothers do.

Many issues such as opioid and jobs affect many different parts of the country in the same way. It is a shared challenge that should be met together. But they would rather destroy everything so long as the 'other' doesn't get the help.

Well now that the President Biden administration will enact actual fixes for these issues, Blue America will finally start moving forward again.

It is these foreign places within our borders that will now have to decide to accept the help from the 'other' ...a help which wouldn't be reciprocated. But the sad thing is, they will self deny until they do so much damage that they finally repent and throw the pukes out.

Either way, one day hopefully, like a miracle, it will all disappear. I pray they repent before they meet the Lord. He will have less mercy than the liberals.

[mrs_p]

1. I don't know. I'm in ND

And rural folks and similarly minded supporters are in power here. I don’t see that going away anytime soon. Anti-government and anti science (as in disinformation) prevails. Religion and guns - that’s what folks seem to care about. The dems want to bring us out of a one party state. I don’t see a path forward and am planning on getting the hell out of here as soon as I can.

[Girard442]

2. Ultimately, we have to help those areas, not because it's a slam dunk political strategy...

...but because it's the right thing to do.

Things like better healthcare, improved safety net programs, high-performance broadband, subsidies for schools and libraries and hospitals, and ways to push law enforcement to actually protect and serve. They won't love us for it, but along the way they might accidentally become better people.

[Squinch]

3. I agree. The problem is that, the way our democracy works, they

have far more political clout than people in states with much larger populations.

We'd like to help them, but they steadfastly use their power to prevent it. All the while castigating othwrs as welfare queens when, in fact, rural white regions are the biggest takers of government benefits.

Clearly Darwinism is at work here, but it is a slow proceas.

[Girard442]

4. Some days I think they fear becoming better people because they'd become not themselves.