I think we may be able to avoid all out fascism but unfortunately we are now in an oligarchy and need to stop it before it goes further. Think 1990s Russia after the fall of the USSR as they didnt turn fascist until the 2000s so we have time to right the ship if we resist!
Quite simply because they believe you should learn a trade and do manual labor over academic success… until those jobs get eliminated by automation. Red State residents don’t invest enough in education unless it’s religious schooling. Areas with higher education are more prosperous. (See part 2)
If Education were a priority, everyone would be lifted by the rising tide. Additionally, while property tax rates would be higher, so would incomes and home values. Corporations have no incentive to pay higher wages, so they go where can get a cheap labor force that has few options. It’s a cycle.
Yes, 9 out of the Top 10 Poorest states in the U.S. are Republican states, and have been for many, many decades. 9 out of the Top 10 states in the U.S. lowest in education are Republican states, and also have been for many, many decades.
The Republican Party likes to keep its cult like following poor and stupid for a reason. Donald Trump said he loves the uneducated for a reason. And it’s not due to the intellect.
That’s why they want to take away the dept of education. An uneducated population or a population that is taught what they want them to be taught is easier to control.
Typical for red states, yes. Not so much blue. Hence just 1 blue state in the Top 10. In NM it’s due to low educational attainment, lack of funding, teacher shortages, poverty, low literacy, poor infrastructure, the tax system, and adverse childhood experiences.
I'm a blue island in a sea of red. So many people around here are on government assistance. It'll be nice to watch when the FO phrase starts hitting them.
Because their states rank the lowest in education, medical access, are so fucking stupid if you tell them something twice they believe it. They think bankruptcy means beating the banks, grabbing a pussy means saving animals, looking at an eclipse is denying science, assault = tourism. Y’all add on.
There's a house near me that is in awful shape. Five old beat-up cars sitting in the yard and a blue tarp that's been on the roof for well over a year. Two signs in their yard: one saying that he will lower grocery prices and one that calls Kamala a crook. 😒
um, they missed the point w/those t signs. They make great chicken coops, puppymill cages, and clean pig butchering floors.
I know, I know. That was cheap. Not ALL t supporters have a pig to butcher, but the neighbors dog...??🤪
Uneducated sheep 🐑 who believe everything they see on FoxNews.
Murdoch Trump and Musk take advantage of the stupid people to benefit their own interests.
Then add the fact that blue states, through fair taxation, fund these nanny states who can't even take care of themselves but tout just how "free" they are! Just wait 'til they almost all get wiped off the map by tornadoes and hurricanes due to climate change!
The answer to the ascertain that republicans are good with economics is, saying it doesn't make it so. They are nothing but hot air with their self congratulatory statements.
California needs to secede and quit giving my hard-earned federal tax dollars to prop up dumbass red states. They won’t mind, they hate us anyway har har✊🏼
Conservatives are chronically online. They live in boring ass places with nothing to do so they spend every waking moment online just being spoon fed bullshit and weaponized against themselves. They live vicariously through Trump and Elon. It’s so fuckin bizarre.
Agree! Also #shadowcabinet
Dedicated subject matter critics to respond to failure in proposed policies in a detailed thoughtful way and offer the alternative.
This way Dems can demonstrate what their values are and how they influence decisions for normal ppl and not just those in power.
It's about getting dirty and running on popular progressive issues. Fight. Don't avoid a topic because it might be "divisive." F being the party of joy and hope. It might work in elementary school, but not in politics.
At least 20 red states are subsidized by blue states. Red States listen up!’ Don’t cut off the hand that helps you survive year after year. If you don’t like us go get your welfare money somewhere else like your billionaire Fascist leader. I hear he’s loaded!!’n💰💰💰💵💵
I made a TikTok video about this very thing, lol. And as they tend to do, the magas commented that the dems ruined their states by "moving there", ignoring my point that their top to bottom red STATE elected officials are to blame for their states being in such shitty shape
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This is what ive been saying for awhile. These states have had Republicans lead them for years and in most cases decades and yet they are all ranked at the bottom in all economic statistics. They have to take welfare from the blue states all the while they talk shit about out how bad they're run.
I'm not sure why people who struggle love trump so much. He doesn't have their backs. I see it in my area. Broken down houses with trump signs. He's their savior. Sad wrecks.
Conservatives, Republicans are value voters who don't really care about economic results or outcomes as much as having policies that reflect their normative, ethical, moral views on economic power, allocation of resources, resolution of interpersonal conflicts of desire. They're fine being poor.
If ONLY MAGAts voted for Trump, he never would have won anything.
There simply aren't enough Reps (or Dems for that matter) to win an election. They HAD TO have pulled in Independents to win. And if you think all of his voters live like what the photo shows, you are in for a rude awakening.
More blacks, latinos & women voted for him this time than last. He pulled in record number of those groups for a GOP candidate.
If Dems continue to focus on race & sex, they will continue to lose.
This election was directly aimed at a clueless DNC that has forgotten the middleclass. Its about $$$.
Being aimed at "class" is what stupid people believe. Considering they voted for a new York billionaire and his billionaire friends. Class had nothing to do with it
That changes nothing I said. The majority of his voter base is still misogynists And yes racist white women who would rather be seen as 2nd class to a white man than equal to a brown.
Just stop. You are hurting the cause more than helping. I want to believe that you mean well, but this endless focus on the wrong things is what cost Kamala the election. People are hurting and sick of Dems not helping them (or at least not appearing to).
That's the dumbest shit imaginable. Biden enacted dozens of policies to help poor and working class Americans, but that shit didn't get reported on X or fox news where most of the idiots get their "news" and I can see it worked on you too.
Yeah, and they keep voting republican, they are super wealthy, and you are dirt poor what sense does that make oh I forgot "We must vote against them minorities and Immigrants"
Median income might as well been the best prediction of the outcome of the election. The rich blue states voted for the best candidate, the poor read states voted for bigotry and misogyny
For these people It feels good to idolize the bully, it feels good to blame their troubles on on minority groups. These folks choose their politicians like they choose to eat fast food.
I've finally come to the realization that they don't care if they're poor. They don't want policies that would improve their status, because it would also improve the status of people they hate and don't want to be equal to them. They choose poverty and white privilege over equality for all.
Not at all true, they get left behind regardless of party so I mean they switch up west va has swung back and forth for a while trying to find their fit..they feel abandoned please don’t give up on em they used to be blue
You got that right
Just the way they like it
Following like lambs to a slaughter
And with them wanting to defund and abolish the Department of Education this fact will worsen!! Imagine that in a wealthy western nation they want to
dummy up the ppl .
There should be an account on this page of just pictures of maga houses in your area that you just laugh at because you know they enjoy so many of the fruits of democratic policies but love their little cult leader.
I’ve chosen to live as a Christian so I do my best to tamp down my human-tendency to judge. I do often wonder, tho, about the lack of appreciation for those who care for “the least of these” in our society. CA, NY, MA, DC support AL, KY, WV, ME with federal tax $ - but are so hated. I don’t get it.
Because Christianity teaches this exact thinking of following demagogues and not using your own brain. Just look at how many overwhelming majority of Christian’s haven’t even read the Bible almost at all. They hear stories and just blindly trust and accept them but then are doubtful of scientists.
That’s why I’ve “chosen to live as a Christian.” I’ve read the book, lived within a strong faith community, and have opted to live the principles of Christianity without the restrictions and hypocrisy of institutional religion. I try to live my beliefs rather than preach them. Not always successful.
It shows Republicans inability to govern. Their whole deal is saving government money, while they run their states into the ground, requiring government money to stay anywhere near stable.
You're paying the state of Alabama government's welfare all while they take their populations welfare away.
Because rethugbliKKKants are uneducated fools. Anytime you elect someone that it took 4 times to get a GED and then complain about DEI, says a lot about the party right!
I have been shocked at the ignorance of reps like MTG
Who apparently doesn’t understand separation of powers. I get it and I never learned anything about your government in school
Ok I liked everyone’s posts except the magaots please don’t attack the poorest people of our society- regardless of how they vote they have been left behind by the neo cons and neo libs and their vote swing back and forth hoping for help and they don’t ever get it- casualties of class war thanks
Being poor is an issue that affects a large majority of the people in this country. But being poor shouldn’t stop people from finding out the real about politics & politicians. We as a people must keep our eyes ears and our minds open. Seek the truth before you check that box on the ballot.
When you realize the "stock market" and the "economy" are interchangeable terms in the MSM because "America" and the "1%" are also interchangeable terms in MSM, you are scraping the surface.
Ask Tate Reeves. The governor who turned down Medicaid expansion, desperately needed by his state. Rural hospitals keep closing because of that choice.
Me, a New Yorker lived in Mississippi for a few years. The people in that state have been brainwashed. I had to leave because they did not want to change for the better. Mississippi ranks near the bottom in healthcare and education.
Facts, Republicans are the cause of the downfall of every category in red states, as well as America.
#RepublicansAreTheSwamp
#RepublicansAreTheEnemyWithin
In these particular states, half or more of its residents enjoy "suffering for Jesus." They wholeheartedly believe their political enemies -- Dems, unbelievers, Jews, elitists -- cause their suffering. It's their cross to bear.
Reagan invented "Trickle Down Theory" and it's been trickling down on our heads ever since. So I get that the first couple of times when the Tax Cut dog whistle blows, registered Repubs come barking then the economy tanks. But it's been 40 years of this. Maybe it's something in their water?!
It’s a white thing!! They will give up their SSI Medicare Healthcare Wages!! And then there are others that believe anything Reps tell them!! Their Governors turned down billions of Dollars to give them healthcare and build hospitals! And told them it was bad for them!!!
Why doesn’t the Democratic party run aggressively there for the down ballot seats? Not for decades, until they lost all the downballot seats. Does it like losing all these states automatically in the Presidential?
In the last 35+ years only Democrats balanced the budget or left a surplus, all Republicans put us in a recession. Fact. But somehow it’s the economy. Biden out performed them all. Republicans also vote down education. Now you know why.
Unfortunately these are not these facts that republicans voters get. They will tell you that the economy was greater under 🍊 than Biden because they don’t take in consideration the time it takes to crumble or fix it. Each time it’s the same. Democrats have a message issue. Better PR would help 🤷♀️
Everybody was wondering why Bush was quiet. Because he needed to be. I will never forget Katrina & 911. He knows he was a failure! Like his lying daddy no new taxes. Then boom raises taxes!! Means no second term!
There’s a family in SC that in one way or another are on Medicaid,SSI disability and food stamps yet the proudly announced who they voted for. Makes no sense to me.
I am in SC too and based on social media they are all just ignorant. You can't tell them anything, yet they complain about government then still vote for the same idiots.
That's not true. What we don't know is how to combat todays media, today's issues, todays voters. The Dems in Washington are older and too antiquated to compete with the likes of Donald and company. We need youth. No woman could shoulder all that and win.
The paint for those signs cost them their SNAP benefits for that month. What's sad is he has already broken his promises to those dummies and he's not even in office yet. Maggots. Hope they get everything they voted for.
Progressives and liberals need to form a new party. Call it something generic like “The American Party”, highlight all of our goals to revive the working class and we’d probably get a lot of conservatives to support us.
New York received 81 cents, Connecticut received $0.82 & Massachusetts received 83 cents. California fared a bit better than other blue states. It received 96 cents for every dollar the state sent to Washington.
Blue States underwrite Red States. Go ahead and secede. EOM
Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar the state sent to Washington in 2015, according to the Rockefeller study. West Virginia received $2.07, Kentucky got $1.90 and South Carolina got $1.71. New Jersey received $0.74 in federal spending for tax every dollar the state sent to Washington. #4
At the other end, Mississippi residents paid an average of $5,740 per person, while West Virginia paid $6,349, Kentucky paid $6,626 and South Carolina paid $6,665. Low-tax red states also fare better when you take into account federal spending. #3
Connecticut residents paid an average of $15,643 per person in federal taxes in 2015, according to a report by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Massachusetts paid $13,582 per person, New Jersey paid $13,137 and New York paid $12,820.
California residents paid an average of $10,510. #2
They hate California. If it were a country, would be the fifth biggest economy in the world, just behind Germany. Californians underwrite Montana that led states with the highest % of federal funding to the overall budget at 31.8%, Kentucky-30.1%, Louisiana 29.8%, Alaska 29.0%. ALL RED STATES #1
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stupid people listen to and believe the lies of the republican owned shitstream media
Of many.
I know, I know. That was cheap. Not ALL t supporters have a pig to butcher, but the neighbors dog...??🤪
Murdoch Trump and Musk take advantage of the stupid people to benefit their own interests.
They say the Northeast wants to turn your kid gay and rape him in a pizza parlor basement.
That’s how they win.
Red states don’t respect the Eat the Rich slogan, it should be dropped immediately.
They start out in shitty Red state rural public schools.
They indoctrinated by their parents, teachers and members of the community.
Then they’re spoon fed Right-wing propaganda on every media platform they touch.
It’s the end result of misinformation.
That baseline seem to be missing among many conservatives.
But let’s be honest—if too low IQ people have a kid, there isn’t a huge chance that kid’s going to grow up a genius.
Sad but apparently and abundantly true.
We don’t need to lie. We just need to be less honest.
But nazi propaganda machine convinced big chunk of the populace that Democrats are baby eating demons.
Remove Democratic label and the chunk jumps on them like fly on shit.
We are losing the information war. Plain and simple.
We have the ideas and the policy. We fail at message and delivery.
We stop talking about the social issues we’ll tackle once we win. The social issues that turn Independents and Conservatives off.
There are Democratic politicians and Democratic activists.
They aren’t the same.
Dedicated subject matter critics to respond to failure in proposed policies in a detailed thoughtful way and offer the alternative.
This way Dems can demonstrate what their values are and how they influence decisions for normal ppl and not just those in power.
We need to speak simply, plainly and to the issues effecting average Americans.
Lyndon B. Johnson
MAGA's GOP learned how to hustle just like their kompromat bossy Trump the King of grifters of all suckers.
There simply aren't enough Reps (or Dems for that matter) to win an election. They HAD TO have pulled in Independents to win. And if you think all of his voters live like what the photo shows, you are in for a rude awakening.
If Dems continue to focus on race & sex, they will continue to lose.
This election was directly aimed at a clueless DNC that has forgotten the middleclass. Its about $$$.
#winning
Even the billionaires should notice that.
I would tell you my thoughts, but I might have the FBI looking for me the next day.
Just the way they like it
Following like lambs to a slaughter
And with them wanting to defund and abolish the Department of Education this fact will worsen!! Imagine that in a wealthy western nation they want to
dummy up the ppl .
"I will deny reality. I will deny reality. I will deny reality. Trump is God. Trump is God."
You're paying the state of Alabama government's welfare all while they take their populations welfare away.
Who apparently doesn’t understand separation of powers. I get it and I never learned anything about your government in school
See: CROOKED GOP POLITICIANS
#RepublicansAreTheSwamp
#RepublicansAreTheEnemyWithin
Like I grew up in a poor black ghetto & served in the Navy. Used my GI bill for college. Too socialist for the trumpty-dumpty?
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Don’t worry, trump is gonna F-up the economy really quick and 2026 is just around the corner
uh, tariffs y'all!
MAGA in December:
And part of me feels bad for these people, because they don't have the intellectual tools to deprogram.
Blue States underwrite Red States. Go ahead and secede. EOM
California residents paid an average of $10,510. #2