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Johnny2X2X

(22,884 posts)
6. Something Dems are horrible at
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jan 2025

Is pointing out the abject failure that most of the reds states are. Probably because Democrats view all the states as Americans too and want to hanve compassion for the people suffering there.

So we've had like 20 years of Cons and their media talking about California, and for some reason Chicago and Portland, like they're these post apacaluptic hellscapes but noe one ever replying, "Um, sure, but would you like to answer for West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisianna?" The pocerty you see in some of those states is simply 3rd world level and a lot of the country is unaware that there are so many people in the richest country in the world living in what amount to shacks or lean-tos.

You've got Florida succeeding because rich northernoers retire or vacation there. You've got texas succeeding because of oil. And then you have a whole bunch of states that make up almost the entire worst 10 in education, income, poverty, health, crime, freedom, inequality, and basically every major metric that represents quality of life. Most of these red states can't even provides basics sercices for their residents without the blue states tax dollars coming to them through the Federal Goverment.

And this is actually the Republican plan, to turn the blue states into the worst of the red states. Places where the prisons are chuck full of young black men, places where workers have no rights and are forced to work for starvation wages, places where a hand full of the ultra rich live like kings and control everything, places where people work until they drop dead because retirement is no longer a thing. That's the Trump plan for America, to take everything from the middel class in America, everything!

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44 years of Reaganomics collapsed your state buddy Ritabert Jan 2025 #1
44 years of Reagan + 40 years of Limbaugh + 25 years of Fox News Initech Jan 2025 #13
Please stop following crazy people down the rabbit hole Keepthesoulalive Jan 2025 #2
That's a good idea, this would also mean we would have to fight against the legitimacy of the govts they vote for ck4829 Jan 2025 #3
Nothing we say or do can change West Virginia Keepthesoulalive Jan 2025 #8
A battle in 2026 when it is 2025 is not meaningful right now though ck4829 Jan 2025 #10
There is always a battle Keepthesoulalive Jan 2025 #11
More like maxsolomon Jan 2025 #4
But Club Pachyderm will still blame Vogon_Glory Jan 2025 #5
Something Dems are horrible at Johnny2X2X Jan 2025 #6
that porker ain't missed a meal onethatcares Jan 2025 #7
That's how fascists get into power and stay in power. tanyev Jan 2025 #9
Agitprop bullshit... I saw it daily on Twitter Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #12
precisely B.See Jan 2025 #16
Knr. When Biden's infrastructure is undeniable they'll say it was Drumpf's. UTUSN Jan 2025 #14
Being a Taker State is what made them lazy. They should be cut off from excess gov't largess. TheBlackAdder Jan 2025 #15
Who gives a fuck about the inbreds up in Squalor Hollar? Aristus Jan 2025 #17
I was born in Cleveland, but grew up age 2-19 in WV... Drum Jan 2025 #18
I get that. Aristus Jan 2025 #19
Carry on then...you've got a number of US states to get to. Drum Jan 2025 #20
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