#ruralvoters — Public Fediverse posts

Betrayal in the Heartland: How Trump’s Policies Are Crushing the Farmers Who Voted for Him

https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/17/betrayal-in-the-heartland-how-trumps-policies-are-crushing-the-farmers-who-voted-for-him/

The AI Scare Is Y2K on Steroids—and Oligarchs Are Cashing In

The Y2K bug was real, but fear created a spending frenzy. Today’s AI panic repeats that playbook on steroids as corporations monetize anxiety, layoffs, energy use, and hype.

Kansas Senator Is in Play: Adam Hamilton Can End a Century of Republican Control

Kansas voters keep rejecting Republican overreach. Now Adam Hamilton is mounting a values-driven campaign to defeat MAGA Senator Roger Marshall.

#Democrats used to be the party of rural and working-class people. But the party has largely abandoned many of these voters to the Republican wolves in favor of a top-down electoral strategy. How can they repair that relationship?

#IndianaPolitics #RuralVoters

https://www.europesays.com/news/32177/ Trump’s Approval Rating Collapses With Rural Americans Amid Farmer Fury #AmericanFarmBureauFederation #Approval‌rating #DonaldTrump #FoxNews #Headlines #News #RuralAmerica #RuralCommunities #RuralVoters #TopStories #WhiteHouse

@digyoursoul yeah, right but what else is new. The #OrangeFelon has always run scams to simply enrich himself. It's just now on a much grander stage. Time to stop this was November 2024. Unfortunately, the #UnAmericanVoters, #WhiteNationalists, #ChristianNationalists, #MAGAts, #RuralVoters, #Billionaires, and #DumbAssNonVoters got him in power 😭 and no amount of regret is going to make this undone. Clearly, he will do whatever he can to steal the Midterms. Thus, all the good people of America need to band together get in the face of fascism, risk their lives and freedom, and remain peaceful no matter what violence they face like the Minnesotans did in the depth of last winter. #WeCanDoIt #StayStrong #HelpYourNeighbors #VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt #ForThePeople

Rural Trump voters face a harsh reckoning as economic fallout from tariffs and Medicaid cuts threaten farms and hospitals, reports Greg Sargent. Lynlee Thorne of RuralGroundGame.org reveals voters’ shock and volunteers’ strain educating on these risks. Senator Lisa Murkowski condemns GOP’s neglect of rural public radio funding. Read more: https://www.alternet.org/trump-rural-voters/ #GregSargent #DonaldTrump #ruralvoters #tariffs #healthcarecuts #publicradio #LisaMurkowski #RuralGroundGame #politics #medicaid #alternet

@GottaLaff the “A” in USDA no longer stands for “agriculture” Now it stands for acquisition because more generational family farms are going to be lost so that billionaires like Ted Turner & Bill Gates (already the largest landowners in #Nebraska ) can buy up more farmland. I guess the majority of #ruralvoters are getting what they voted for. At least the billionaires (supposedly) vote blue… #MundusSineCeasaribus “a world without Caesars” in Latin

I do not feel bad for anyone who voted for him. "Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trump-gop-rural-supporters/680981/?utm_source=feed #trump #RuralVoters #farming #agriculture #tariffs #uspoli

"It assumes that Trump channels the Volk, and therefore is to be given wide latitude; as he supposedly embodies and gives voice to a populist uprising of 'regular folks,' his message is to be amplified; the will of the true people must not be impeded. Who wants to bring the hammer down on the tribune of 'real America'?"

#Trump #media #RuralVoters #white #heartland
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"There is an element of volkish ideology underneath the way the institutions have behaved towards [Trump], a widespread ideology of 'real Americanism' that is centered around an essentialist view of who gets to represent the nation."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #media #RuralVoters #white
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-project-2025-became-toxic-and

"And white voters vote for the GOP because the GOP is a white identity party which promises to elevate white people at the expense of everyone else."

#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It doesn’t, then, really matter what Democrats say to rural voters. It doesn’t matter even that Democratic policies (like support for rural broadband and rural hospitals) are clearly better than Republican policies. The key problem for Democrats is that white rural voters—especially white rural Christian evangelical voters—vastly outnumber POC rural voters."

#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Noah Berlatsky notes how the media keep using a stick they especially like to beat Democrats with, claiming that Democrats are disdainful of "real" American voters, rural heartland voters. But as he notes,

"Democrats struggle not with rural voters in general, but with white rural voters in particular. And white rural voters do not vote for the GOP because they are rural. They vote for the GOP because they are white."

#Democrats #white #RuralVoters #media
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-do-white-rural-voters-vote-for

"President Donald Trump has repeatedly stressed that his administration’s policies would benefit farmers and rural Americans, vowing in 2016, “We are going to end this war on the American farmer.”1 His rhetoric, however, could not be further from reality. From the moment Trump took office, his administration has openly attacked rural communities ..."

10 Ways the Trump Administration Has Failed Rural America (and...
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-ways-trump-administration-failed-rural-america-10-ways-overcome/

#Trump #SmallFarmers #RuralVoters #Politics

"Unfortunately, while rural Americans could use the power they possess to improve their lives, they almost never do. That power is used only to maintain Republican control and stymie liberal policy advancement, even when liberal policy goals would directly help rural people themselves. …

In fact, as the rural population shrinks, their extraordinary leverage becomes even more stark."

#WhiteRuralVoters #WhiteVoters #RuralVoters #Republicans
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"I want to focus on an aspect of that story that makes the United States unique: Only here are rural citizens given such outsized political power. That power is built into the design of our political system, but it also has to be continually renewed by the Republicans who depend on rural voters to maintain their control of political institutions."

~ Paul Waldman

#WhiteRuralVoters #WhiteVoters #RuralVoters #Republicans
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-the-gop-enhances-rural-power

I'm all for using social media to reach a wider audience, but I believe it's important to make sure the public knows the truth about the policies and platforms of the political parties! #SocialMedia #RuralVoters #Politics #India #TruthMatters http://www.techmeme.com/231125/p3#a231125p3

She’s 25, idealistic, and believes she has the formula to win North Carolina for Joe Biden. The state’s Democratic Party chair is organizing youth and rural voters, and people have noticed: “They know she’s fighting for them.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/shes-25-idealistic-and-believes-she-has-the-formula-to-win-north-carolina-for-joe-biden-00114640

#PoliticoNews #NorthCarolina #JoeBiden #DemocraticParty #YouthVote #RuralVoters #Politics #News

27) Good piece from #NPR on young #RuralVoters which will be an important constituency for #JoeBiden in #Election2024 particular in #Georgia and #NorthCarolina and other purple states.

There are of course rural voters in every state and so the #Biden campaign has to hone its message to bleed away some of these votes which have trended #GOP

#Politics #UsPolitics

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1185826401/rural-voters-lean-red-young-voters-lean-blue-so-whats-a-young-rural-voter-to-do

Rural folks are in a rage
But it's really the wrong people to blame
When their troubles are real
Compassion's the meal
That will quell the desperate flame

#ruralrage #ruralvoters #compassion #troubles #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/rural-voters-economy.html