I think if you look at the way the Prairie voters in Canada are split between right wing parties and NDP with barely any mention of the Liberals, it really highlights why centre-right dems who refuse to stand behind actual helpful socialist policy fail to win over rural areas 
When people say rural voters go against their own self interests voting for republicans, I think they need to consider how little half-assed centre-right Pelosi-democrat policy accomplishes for them, it feels like paying taxes for the idea of social programs you never see
It's kind of like that whole "poor people can't afford cheap things" saying, and lower taxes with the promise of nothing feels more beneficial to immediate survival than higher taxes with promised benefits that never seem to pan out or are difficult to access.
(This isn't me trying to tell people to be nicer to red state trump cultists, just explaining why Nancy Pelosi is full of shit when she says Georgia is proof the democrats need to act more like republicans)
Centrist liberals are the worst thing to happen to rural outreach, because for all that talk of like “we’re just trying to give you healthcare and education” it’s like... sure, if the centrists gave them healthcare and education maybe they’d actually see quantifiable benefit.
Any democrat saying the “far left almost cost them the election” is an enormous fucking ungrateful idiot after progressives just spent all their energy building Joe Biden a goddamn spirit bomb to cut through all the voter suppression and diet-republican centrist handwringing.
Speaking as a born-and-raised rural person, you know what people out in the sticks respond well to? When you say “hey not only are we paying for your mom’s medical treatment, we’re also gonna bring her to the city and put her up in a hotel while she receives it”
What they don’t respond well to is some kinda “if you’re a pell grant recipient who opens a business in a low income area in three years you can apply for partial student loan forgiveness” half-assed non-solution.
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