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It takes a record book worthy amount of tone deafness to suggest that the poorer parts of the republican base have been hoodwinked into spending generations vot
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
It takes a record book worthy amount of tone deafness to suggest that the poorer parts of the republican base have been hoodwinked into spending generations voting for a party that promises to solve their problems but does nothing of the sort but the same part of the democratic base hasn't. The republicans have served poor rural voters no better or worse than the democrats have served poor inner city voters.
- dariusj18 5y agoI don't think it's generations, just over the last 20 years. It was the inevitable long term effect of the Southern Strategy.
- kcplate 5y agoFor about the last 35 years (since Bush 41) I saw no discernible difference between the parties in terms of governance (lots of difference in rhetoric though). However, once the pandemic hit there tended to be a much greater amount of authoritarianism regarding pandemic policies coming from elected democrats. Interestingly it was across the board as well. Even down to the local community levels, it seemed to me that the democrats were interested in way more heavy handed approaches. This seems to have now expanded beyond pandemic management to other things as well. That is a concern for me.