A Democratic Party organizer in Wisconsin says that the Democrats need to make some serious policy moves that benefit rural voters. For a start he suggests reining in agribusiness corporations & getting broadband internet for the entire country.
He's got a point. If the Democrats continue to ignore flyover country, they're not going to get anywhere. Mitch McConnell, the living roadblock, doesn't look to be going anywhere in the near future. The Senate can and will be an anchor around the neck of the country unless the Democrats make progress there, and that means winning in rural states.
Why did Trump do so well with rural voters? From my experience, it’s not because local Democrats failed to organize in rural areas. Instead, after conversations with dozens of voters, neighbors, friends and family members in Dunn County, I’ve come to believe it is because the national Democratic Party has not offered rural voters a clear vision that speaks to their lived experiences. The pain and struggle in my community is real, yet rural people do not feel it is taken seriously by the Democratic Party.
In Australia, for many years a conservative political party, the Nationals (formerly the Country Party) were formed specifically to get the rural vote. On and off, they have been the junior coalition party with the Liberal Party, a sometimes fraught relationship. Recently, a series of smaller parties have chipped away at its country base...
It makes strategic sense, but it wasn't rural voters who got the White House for Biden and Harris. The immediate reality is that they will at least pay some lip service to the cities, perhaps with some plum infrastructure initiatives. Of course if the Republicans hold the Senate, none of that is likely to get very far, and doing both (programs for cities and rural communities alike) simply makes too much sense. For the USA it's just crazy talk. Isn't there a war that needs starting somewhere?
They should change the undemocratic European system while they are at it.
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The present severely undemocratic system favours the small rural states so just change the system.
Sure thing. We'll just scrap the constitution. We will dump all the duties of Gov't on the states. The president will be elected by popular vote. He will just do simple stuff: print money, bomb Iran and control pandemics. Borders are handled by states with bordering Mexico or Canada.
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
what about all those South Asians swimming ashore along the West coast?
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
what about all those South Asians swimming ashore along the West coast?
There's always a need for more Asian fusion restaurants in California...
Yes please! There's a ramen joint near us that has the best pork belly buns ever. OMG they're so tasty.
Hopefully this damn plague won't put them out of business...
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"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka
We'll never get them working class white dudes back:
Talking Right, subtitled How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Right
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
We are a freak show. Have you read about the infighting over diversity in Biden's cabinet? It's bizarre. Apparently, because he's already nominated two whites to key cabinet positions he's limited to finding non-whites for the rest....and if he rolls a six we're in the marsh of despair.
"With less regulation on the margins we expect the financial sector to do well under the incoming administration” —money manager
The progressives worked their butts off to defeat Trump and get Biden elected, but as Tony Benn once noted: "Every single generation has to fight the same battles again and again and again. There’s no final victory. And there’s no final defeat."
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
