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Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America.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.
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:
Yeah. centrists.
Yeah. A centrist.
You clearly have no understanding of what centrist means. Neither of them represent the middle of the country. Even going by party affiliation and definition used by US corporate media, the center of two right wing parties is still right wing.
Just because you have to suddenly pretend that they're not the most emblematic members of your wing of the party, that doesn't mean you have to gaslight.
They represent the right flank of the democratic party. They're centrists.
The right flank of the Democratic party is just right wing. Not central. Their policy stances are not middle of the road, they're self enriching and aligned withbig pharma and a coal industries
So why do we let them run the party?
They don't. But being the squeaky wheel in one party in a two party system where the other party is hellbent on blocking anything their opposition wants, regardless of what it is, gives you a lot of leverage.
It isn't gaslighting to point out that you're using a word wrong.
they really wernt centrists, manchin was a republican that couldnt get elected as one so he switched parties to D, and kirsten was very similar.
They absolutely were centrists.