Rural voters as a bloc seem determined to vote in support of laissez-faire socioeconomic approaches which incentivize this result. I suppose it’s possible that

Rural voters as a bloc seem determined to vote in support of laissez-faire socioeconomic approaches which incentivize this result. I suppose it’s possible that they don’t intend this and merely are thoughtless about it from a policy standpoint, but if we’re being generous it also seems plausible to assume they’re not being stupid and this is either acceptable or part of the intended result.