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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Republicans destroyed Rural America. Their NO vote on BIF is the proof of that
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"Every rural Republican just voted no on finally delivering rural broadband.
After a decade of campaign promises to bring it to their most loyal constituents- the Democrats, not the Republicans, delivered it."
Thank us later ~
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Freddie
(10,104 posts)Why waste our time, they’re beyond reason.
Celerity
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Casady1
(2,133 posts)Is the pulling out of manufacturing in rural america. Secondly, if you want to give a better example use EMC’s and the rural electrification program. Businesses had made their decision and they were not going to electrify rural america and FDR used the government to bring electricity to America.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Guess we can add Monsanto to the list as well.
& RW Rural Radio. They've controlled the Radio messaging for so long, its no wonder they don't want Broadband.
hunter
(40,689 posts)... of his wife's family.
He eagerly signed up for rural electrification to power his radios, and was later a part-time lineman for the rural subsidized telephone system.
My great grandma, after he passed, living in a house with a god damned radio, two forty watt light bulbs, and a phone you cranked to make a call, never forgave him for any of that. In her universe when it was dark you lit a candle you'd made yourself from beef tallow. If you wanted to talk to a neighbor you'd saddle up a horse and go.
When one of her grandchildren, my mom's cousin, installed indoor plumbing in the ranch's big house to please his new bride, my great grandma was convinced that all she and her ancestors had ever suffered was for naught. He'd bought the electric pump on credit from Sears! The horror. I was just a little pitcher with big ears then.
paleotn
(22,212 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)Everyday
Lovie777
(22,971 posts)
Turbineguy
(40,074 posts)They are wildly popular in Rural America.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)
Cha
(319,067 posts)in Swing Districts! 
Rt TY
Budi
(15,325 posts)👍💙
Cha
(319,067 posts)will!
IronLionZion
(51,267 posts)right? 
Dems really should use issues like this better to win more rural voters. We used to elect Dems from rural areas not too long ago and they liked stuff like FDR's new deal. There's money in this bill for water projects, energy projects, and much more that will help these folks.
Elessar Zappa
(16,385 posts)that people in red states and rural areas understand that it’s the Democrats who brought the projects to their districts. Otherwise Republicans will no doubt try and claim credit.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,142 posts)But, maybe the ability to get better news might help their children... maybe...
paleotn
(22,212 posts)Simply get them all ginned up on god, guns and brown people scapegoats for all their real and imagined woes and their constituents vote stupid, guaranteed. Actually delivering anything useful for their districts is unnecessary. Plus, there's no money in it for them and that is the only person Republicans give two shits about. Themselves.
SergeStorms
(20,591 posts)is complain about how much the government is spending.
They've been touched by the hands of hate, anger and fear the republican party controls them with, and that's all they know.
There's not a chance in hell they'll ever support Democrats, no matter how much Democrats improve their lives.
zaj
(3,433 posts)Trump and Vladimir Putin, he said, are often described as “populists”, but “a populist is someone who has a policy offering, a promise to the people” to make their lives better. “I don’t see that in Trump and Putin. I see policies that if implemented would hurt the people… it is sadism, the deliberate administration of pain.”
“That probably sounds strange,” he admitted, “how can you possibly govern by hurting the people who put you in office?”
The answer, Snyder suggested, is that you fuel fear, anger, resentment, hate; but you make people feel better by making sure they know others are far worse off; and you create blame and division between the various groupings. “Sado-populists do not ask ‘how do we make people better off?’ But ‘how do we revive enmities?’ Discrimination and racism – they are reviving them by trying to teach white people they are doing better – or they are better – than blacks, Hispanics, Muslims.”
Staph
(6,467 posts)David McKinley (R-WV) voted for the bill. He is as close to a Republican maverick as there is these days.
He voted to establish the January 6 commission. And in January 2020, McKinley and Representative Kurt Schrader co-authored an opinion piece for USA Today on climate change. It read in part, "climate change is the greatest environmental and energy challenge of our time, and our government is failing to meet it. Instead of energy policy that lurches in a different direction after every election cycle, we need a new approach to develop realistic solutions that will enjoy support from both parties in Congress. Setting a steady course would be far better for both industry and the environment." The piece also called for "policies that will make clean energy technologies for all fuels affordable—solar, wind, hydro and other renewables, as well as nuclear, carbon capture for fossil fuels, energy efficiency, storage, and other technologies that will make the grid more secure, resilient, and affordable."