Don’t forget all the times that Dems point out that blue states are contributors and red states are takers. The impression they are trying to make is that people in red states are uneducated hicks, or maybe drug addicts, on welfare.
A couple of examples of the left trying to punish rural America.
One of the provisions in the Democrat’s C.R. presented in the Senate cut $50 billion from America’s rural hospitals and clinics.
Democrats don’t just ignore rural America nowadays. They are actively fighting to hurt everyone who lives there.
Senate Democrats made that clear last week when they announced they wouldn’t vote for a clean budget bill before the Tuesday deadline unless Republicans agreed to defund rural health care. Specifically, Democrats want to repeal the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program that President Trump signed into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It’s one of their main conditions for funding the government.
That’s right: Democrats would rather shut down the federal government than help rural Americans get health care.
[…] Make no mistake: Rural America needs the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. Outside big cities, hospitals and doctors’ offices are much more spread out. Rural areas have less of the latest technologies. People living in rural communities often face worse health outcomes. These communities also need help because Democrats have already hurt rural hospitals.
Across the U.S., Democrats are waging war to crush a lifestyle they abhor. Call it small-town America: single-family neighborhoods, quiet streets, town centers stamped with their own historic character, and almost no signs of the vagrancy and homeless encampments that plague cities.
Democrats want you to have none of this. If you’ve worked for years to save up for a home in one of these havens, forget about it.
The Democratic Party uses brute legal force to remake towns using a cookie-cutter formula that forces each to have the same proportion of houses and apartments, the same mix of low-, middle-, and upper-income residents, and the same reliance on public transit, all controlled by state politicians.
Any town that resists gets shamed as “segregated” — though this isn’t about race — and “snobby.”
On Saturday, the Connecticut legislature passed a bill, H.B. 5002, which should be called the Destroy Connecticut Towns Act. It’s headed to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk for a signature. The new law dictates how many low-income and moderate-income apartments each Connecticut town must provide, and mandates that towns also foot the bill for the schools, parks, public transportation, and other services low-income residents will need. Local taxes will soar.
The bill explicitly says its purpose is to ensure “economic diversity” in each town. This is about social engineering, not remedying housing shortages.
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Towns also will be forced to welcome vagrants who want to sleep in parks and public lots. The bill outlaws “hostile architecture,” meaning park benches with armrests and divided seating, or stone walls with spikes on top that deter sleeping in the rough.
Instead, the bill launches a program of mobile showers and mobile laundry services on trucks to serve the homeless wherever they choose. Picture the mobile showers pulling up to Greenwich Common Park on the town’s main street, or Waveny Park in New Canaan.
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They think this would be easily accomplished by economic policies. I don’t. I know rural people, and prefer to live outside cities, although I don’t now, because of my age and family circumstances. I believe many, perhaps most, rural people will not easily give in, or give up their property.
They underestimate their education, preparation, and certainly their skill set and what they contribute to America. These people are not just out in the boonies drinking moonshine and hunting and fishing. Many of them pour out their lifeblood every day to grease the wheels that turn this country. They actually build, fix, and run things. And there are plenty of white collar workers who live rurally as well.
Further, when you push the center Democrats and less outspoken Independents, as well as left leaning Republicans hard enough, some those who silently exited cities for safety and sanity reasons just might find the spine to actually refuse to go back to living side by side with violent thugs in the city. They might man up and refuse to put their child in city schools. They also might fight for what they’ve paid and worked hard for.
I am not saying I think these people will declare war on the Fed, but what if they do finally find the resolve to band together, act together, resist together? Life will not be pleasant for anyone. And unless the Democrats’ answer to that really is Nazi type imprisonment, what exactly will be their move?
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Wait until all the farmers move to town……..
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Everything that was done during Brain-Freeze’s reign was done on purpose and has long-term consequences. Here’s one of them. No Clarice this morning, but this will frost your Post-Toasties……
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_shell_game_behind_the_shutdown.html
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