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In reply to the discussion: I am an American Veteran. My fellow Americans, you need to get out of rural areas [View all]Karma13612
(4,555 posts)38. We need rural America
To eat.
But, that shouldnt hold us hostage when it comes to much needed legislation that will help ALL of the middle-class.
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I am an American Veteran. My fellow Americans, you need to get out of rural areas [View all]
maxrandb
Dec 2021
OP
I think, though, that rather than "What do the diner denizens think?" our question should be
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#5
the math says at $1000/hr, RW radio is worth... about $5B/yr FREE (x15hrs/day x 1200 stations)
certainot
Dec 2021
#199
The radio is a problem, and I think it needs to be addressed, but that would take time.
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#203
i think offense aimed at rw radio could have quick results. it would get media attn right away
certainot
Dec 2021
#207
Definitely. This, though, should just be one prong of a multi-pronged effort.
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#234
Point of rant is that they AREN'T ignored. Rather, they ignore urban conditions
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2021
#17
STATES: The GOP Knows They Matter: 'Laboratories of Autocracy' David Pepper- Alec Kochs Gerrymanders
appalachiablue
Dec 2021
#168
Yes!! You just said what I've been feeling for a while, but wasn't able to articulate.
Biophilic
Dec 2021
#11
Considering how rural America likes to shop and vacation in the bigger cities.
LiberalFighter
Dec 2021
#12
I'm a 'libtard', socialist from rural Wisconsin. This is s Republican area. Let me inform you that
johnthewoodworker
Dec 2021
#18
How many rural hospitals and clinics would have gone bankrupt and closed without the ACA?
maxrandb
Dec 2021
#205
Good points, but without the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Urban dwellers who work there,
Progressive Jones
Dec 2021
#166
The Ghost towns and ruins are largely due to Corporate takeover of farming and ranching.
Tommymac
Dec 2021
#176
The OP wishes people would care about the majority urban dwellers from time to time. nt
Gore1FL
Dec 2021
#158
It is directly quoted from the title of your post I was replying to a couple posts above.
Gore1FL
Dec 2021
#206
You keep stating things that I did not write. I can't help you with that.
twodogsbarking
Dec 2021
#211
A huge pet peeve of mine is the rural, very white Midwest being called 'The Heartland'
Celerity
Dec 2021
#27
In MI, 75% of the people who voted for TFG live in urban or mostly urban counties.
Kaleva
Dec 2021
#30
The Electoral College is the only reason anybody pays attention to rural America.
Fiendish Thingy
Dec 2021
#35
Many people have left and continue to leave Rural America to go live in Urban America.
chowder66
Dec 2021
#37
There may be disproportionate recruitment from rural areas, but those numbers are dubious
Mersky
Dec 2021
#126
My perception is that many or most rural (white) folks are racists. And...
Trust_Reality
Dec 2021
#151
yep, it's the radio. limbaugh killed more than hitler and stalin when you add up
certainot
Dec 2021
#197
"Maybe rural America should come over and share a few pitchers of water with a Flint Michigan Family
Hekate
Dec 2021
#63
Except that Dems need to appeal to rurals to GET THEIR VOTES, and that's the name of the game.
thesquanderer
Dec 2021
#65
I was just reading about the Farmers Alliance and Grange movement. Making money farming was almost
brewens
Dec 2021
#71
Yes, it's kind of like the "hard-scrabble", "salt if the earth" manly, he-man coal miner
maxrandb
Dec 2021
#215
If we had a marketing department we could respond that repubs are out of touch with the common good.
CrispyQ
Dec 2021
#80
The reason why people say that Dems need to reach out to rural America is because we want the Dems
totodeinhere
Dec 2021
#96
We've been doing that. What has it gotten us? We are on the brink of losing democracy AND
onecaliberal
Dec 2021
#146
Cool...Your post here has become a topic of conversation on Thom Hartmann's show.
Liberal In Texas
Dec 2021
#100
I got the exact same impression. Certainly makes me question spending time here.
twodogsbarking
Dec 2021
#174
You know for a fact that no DUer could handle the lifestyle you're talking about?
OnionPatch
Dec 2021
#220
So how does any of that address the lopsided resources rural America gets from M$M, pols, and voting
uponit7771
Dec 2021
#229
Do Urban businesses get subsidies to prevent their failure like rural farmers do? NO!
Ziggysmom
Dec 2021
#115
You miss the point entirely. We are winning in the urban areas but given how our government
Demsrule86
Dec 2021
#127
Dems don't have a messaging infrastructure like the kGOP in rural areas, haven't invested in it
uponit7771
Dec 2021
#230
Donor means giver. California is a donor state: we send more taxes to the feds than we get back. nt
Hekate
Dec 2021
#219
RNC is setting up community centers in urban areas where they invite Democrats and target minorities
LeftInTX
Dec 2021
#138
But there was that huge push in 2016 for Republicans to understand Hillary voters!
Beartracks
Dec 2021
#178
I don't know why people think Steve Bullock has anything to teach Democrats . . .
markpkessinger
Dec 2021
#181
I don't know why people think Steve Bullock has anything to teach Democrats . . .
markpkessinger
Dec 2021
#182
The Independent voter resides everywhere. And it is they who decide elections.
oldsoftie
Dec 2021
#183
And there are states like Texas that we can win in a few years without a single rural vote
RB TexLa
Dec 2021
#184
Continuing to believe its just the rurals who worry about those things is a mistake.
oldsoftie
Dec 2021
#225
Seriously, America was forged in Boston and Philadelphia and the immigrant slums of NY
AdamGG
Dec 2021
#194
I'm tired of this mythical 'Dems need to reach out to rural America' bullshit.
Abolishinist
Dec 2021
#196
The hidden assumption is that rural Murikkka is too damn dumb and irrational
librechik
Dec 2021
#210
We can't control what the media does. We CAN control what the Party and its candidates do.
brooklynite
Dec 2021
#239