If Democrats really want to win over people like me and my family and undo MAGA:
They need to get out of the cities and come to our farms.
They need to see how they are dying. And they need to do more than just say "I see you". Saying it doesn't do anything when you're still pouring billions into corporate processing farms and stone walling family farms with red tape.
We only ever hear from Democrats during election cycles. That's it.
Want rural America to stand with you? You first.
@John_Ripley That's why they need to show up in person.
Two feet and a heart beat is the best way to reach people.
@quinnsentialOne It's funny because when I go back with my brother-in-law to a very rural county in Western Ohio, if politics are brought up we can discuss and in the end are told "Don't matter. You won't change anyone's mind. Voting for republicans." Very frustrating.
@John_Ripley Yup.
It has been a festering problem for generations.
@quinnsentialOne It’s a fair point and there should be better outreach to people in rural areas, but here’s my question. What does the GOP actually do for them to earn their loyalty?
If I had to guess it’s peddling social issues and conspiracy theories. Trump straight up lied to workers in WV in 2016 saying that coal jobs are coming back. We all know it’s not true and yet he got their votes in back to back elections.
@Sanjuro38 The GOP pretends to care. Which is more than Democrats have done for them.
Want to do better than that?
Show up and actually DO something. One up the GOP.
@quinnsentialOne So lying to those living in rural areas about their livelihoods and riling them up over conspiracy theories is preferable to what Dems currently are doing? There's not an easy solution to getting the rural vote that relies on substantive policy instead of conspiracies. I don't think most people in those areas want to hear anything about green jobs.
IMO, all Republican agendas boil down to keeping America white. The fear that whites are losing power & not enough white babies are being born has been ingrained & bred into rural Republicans. (The book “The Birth Dearth” is a good read on the subject.) This fear explains why an average American would vote for a political party that gives to mega corps & the rich rather than one that provides aid to low-income & middle class. Race supersedes the $. But they won’t admit to it.
Sorry for butting in late to the conversation. Like you said, Americans have more in common than not. I believe that is very true with the exception of race.
@quinnsentialOne In Ohio they do go, Our republican controlled government makes it hard to get broadband to people. They make it hard have dying farms move to solar, wind and hemp. They make rural Ohio stay rural Ohio to keep their gerrymandered super-majority. That is the fight we have in Ohio.