Democrats Are Throwing In the Towel on Rural America

Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America. No party can win nationally without rural voters, and progressive economics have plenty to offer, if only the party would embrace them.

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This isn't a since 2016 thing. This is nearly a since 1980s thing. But here's the thing. Anyone waiting for a National Party to anoint someone for them. Has already failed. The reason the National Party doesn't help you. Is that you don't help them. And that is on them.
We need to stop waiting around for some detached and uncaring National Party to magically start caring about us. Rebuild our local and State parties ourselves. Take leadership back for ourselves. Only once the national party has become irrelevant or disposable will they actually care about us.
Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from ~~rural~~ America.
FTFY.
Democrats have thrown in the towel on all Americans that aren't billionaire political donors.
- well they have the same donors as the gop, the backdoor deals are done bipartisanly. the Dinos benefit from what the gop passes in general.
This is one of the reasons Obama did well. He focused on these areas more than previous and subsequent democrats.
Yes, rural America isn't netanyahu.
The Democrats flat out passed on a U.S. senate race in Nebraska in 2024.
They're inbred bigoted hicks anyway.
- As a very left rural American, fuck you
2014 - Democrats vote in some “blue dog” democrats. Progressives complain that they’re DINOs.
2022 - Democrats get push back from centrist democrats like Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin on the Green New Deal. Democrats cast them out.
2025 - John Fetterman works across the aisle in support of rural voter causes…you get the drill
This article “we need more rural democrats!” Yeah, good luck finding ones who are willing to take the progressive lambasting.
- You calling Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin "centrists" just shows you have no idea what you are talking about. They are 100% corporate Democrats who took millions from oil or pharmaceuticals lobby to kill bills that were unfairable to them. Hence Build Back Better and Medicaid prescription drug negotionations being neutered into nothing. But you continue living in your denial bubble.
  John Fetterman voted with Republicans more than he voted with Democrats. He's a a simple sellout to a foreign country and primarify funded by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He should be treated as a traitor.
  I and 70%+ of the country prefer Tim Walz style rural vision.
  With a 1 seat majority in Minnesota he did:
  universal free school meals
  legal weed
  carbon free electricity by 2040
  tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
  12 weeks paid family leave
  12 weeks paid sick leave
  banned conversion therapy
  red flag laws for guns
  universal background checks for guns
  automatic voter registration
  free public college (under $80k)
  ban on PFAS (forever chemicals)
  $2.2 billion increase in k-12 school funding
  sectoral bargaining for nursing home worker
  
  You calling Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin “centrists” just shows you have no idea what you are talking about. They are 100% corporate Democrats who took millions from oil or pharmaceuticals lobby to kill bills that were unfairable to them
  Yeah. centrists.
  John Fetterman voted with Republicans more than he voted with Democrats. He’s a a simple sellout to a foreign country and primarify funded by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He should be treated as a traitor.
  Yeah. A centrist.

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