See, the argument I've heard along these lines is that the "wealthy elite" lobby conservative politicians to avoid regulations that would improve the quality of

See, the argument I've heard along these lines is that the "wealthy elite" lobby conservative politicians to avoid regulations that would improve the quality of life for those rural folks. Things like health care, education and environmental reforms, all the while their politicians decrease taxes to the wealthy elite under a false promise that it'll help the working class that the wealthy elite continue to cut out of the job market with automation and asymmetric minimum wage increases (despite the fact that the wealthy elite continue to amass more and more wealth, hmm, must be coincidental). So then when the working class person has a medical problem, (an increased risk due to things like poor environmental regulations on those businesses owned by the wealthy elite) they get targeted by shady loan offers (due to relaxed financial regulations) and end up going into debt, thus helping to ensure a lineage of poverty for their children (who could probably break out of it if things like affordable education were more available, but unfortunately, those same politicians...) I've even met some nice folks in the mid-west who aren't so happy about what the big corporations have done to their farmland or the rivers they like to fish in because some of them understand the fact that natural resources come in a variety of forms even if the wealthy elite and their corporations aren't able to easily tap them for profit. It's as if there are two sides to this story.