1. I work hard on the alt-reality issues @nytdavidbrooks is talking to @KatyTurNBC about, but I really think he'd benefit from diversifying his own sources/knowledge on this topic. It falls back to the coastal city folks vs the "real Americans/left behind" schtick that ignores
2. reality of the fact that via their vote choice (for the GOP) voters in rural areas & red states are taking active roles in their economic annihilations. Its not "blue state coastal elites" robbing them blind-its their own beloved GOP electeds- the same ones they kick it w at
3. at the pig roast, county fair, or local parade., At the surface, these electeds DO appear to represent their folks well, but in the state chamber or in DC, on their votes, esp the economic ones, they are screwing their friends & neighbors over. The only things they're NOT
4. screwing them over on, the Farm Bill, Dems vote yes on too. So by voting for Ds, they'd get that, PLUS rural investment in broadband, schools, infrastructure, wages, & jobs. They don't get those things when they vote to create GOP majorities. Where you see GOP majorities you
5. also see lack of investment, decimation of public education and public services, divestment from rural areas. They bring in a project here and there to hide it but its not an accident that the decline of rural America correlates with more than 20 yrs of GOP control of it.
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