Are Rural Voters the Democrats' next Target Audience?

[Seymour Flops]

Or someone like Booker or AOC or Jeffries …

Yeah. Maybe a black guy from the rural south who became a succes. But Democrats seem to only like mixed race men, not black men, in leadership positions.

 

[jackflash]

That’s how it works here too. We go to the towns clinic and if they need something more we drive to the main hospital for that stuff. I think our clinic is good for about anything up to broken bones which the main hospital takes over from there and up.

The nearest incorporated town to me is the town of Deer Park. Our current medical clinics are two in number, "Deer Park Family Care Clinic", & the "Deer Park Urgent Care" facility. Deer Park has several medical doctors as residents most likely working together in the clinics which probably are owned by them through a corporation. And yes, we do have a CHAS clinic for the low to no income folks, like so much for the statist lefties claims that we Libertarians/Conservatives leave the chronically unemployed & low income folks to die on the sidewalks.

Honestly I do not know how our three medical facilities in Deer Park can handle the load. The general area(I call it the Deer Park Triangle) stretches northwest to Loon lake, actually slightly N/E to the Deer Lake community then clear over east to the unincorporated town of Elk that's close to the Idaho border. North of Elk a ways there are two lake communities & the sparsely populated Deer Valley area but these residents are most likely traveling east to the big cities of Newport & Priest River. That gigantic triangle area probably has 8/10 thousand folks residing in it & guess what, no dead bodies laying on the deck not a one! But guess where U can find dead bodies laying on the deck by the numbers...

The horrifying ways San Franciscans found dead overdose victims

More than 700 people have fatally overdosed on San Francisco's streets. Some residents say they're desensitized to finding death on their doorsteps. Others are forever haunted.

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Welcome in the drug cartels then blame Libertarians/conservatives for cut back$!

The statist left like to accuse us greedy(?), heartless(?) Libertarians/Conservatives of everything that they perpetrate but attempt to REFLECT it back upon us Libertarians/Conservatives. Watch, the Major Managed News Media(MMNM) will find a small community whose medical facility is being remodeled/updated & TEMPORARILLY closed but the MMNM will report it's being shut down(half truth) due to conservative cutbacks, & of course pres. Trump will be the reason(TDS) even though the small communities medical center will be back on line in short order. Reflection, half truths & the MMNM, don't propagandize without them!

 

[JWBooth]

After decades of ridiculing rural folk for their values and concerns and enacting legislation punishing them for the same, the party of crime, perversion, and nanny state interference in their lives wants our votes.
**** ‘em and feed ‘em fish heads.

 

[Seymour Flops]

After decades of ridiculing rural folk for their values and concerns and enacting legislation punishing them for the same, the party of crime, perversion, and nanny state interference in their lives wants our votes.
**** ‘em and feed ‘em fish heads.

Yes, and the plan is not for Democrats to change their beliefs and plans in any way, but to reach out to rural folk with the same "Orange Man Bad" hysterical lies that didn't work in 2024 due to lack of ballot harvesters.

 

[jackflash]

NPR had an interview with some Democrat strategist on the radio today. Sorry, no link to that since it was a radio show.

The strategists observation was that Democrats need to go after rural voters, with an emphasis on the damage that the Medicaid cuts will do to rural hospitals. Here is a related story from a few days ago before the BBB was passed:

The Senate bill would cut more than $1 trillion from the program and the latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly 12 million people will lose health insurance if it becomes law. The plan would require able bodied adults to work 80 hours per month until age 65 to qualify for benefits, and would also cap and gradually reduce the tax states can impose on Medicaid providers.

"Medicaid cuts would place significant financial pressure on hospitals in rural states, where many hospitals are already at risk of closure. In more than half of states, reductions in Medicaid funding for rural hospitals would exceed 20%," according to the National Rural Health Association

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5451401/republicans-big-bill-could-hit-rural-hospitals-hard

I did not know that the government taxed Medicaid providers in this way to fund rural hospitals. So, this is a redistribution of wealth from the urban areas where wealth is created to rural areas, where food and other agri-products are produced. Also where many retirees live in order to avoid the high rents and taxes in urban areas.

Because of this wealth transfer, there are hospitals in rural areas whose populations demand for medical services might not support a hospital. The theory is that if these hospitals close and the rural residents who can vote will blame the GOP.

This may well resonate with some rural voters, but unless they actually see their hospital close - which will happen to very few - I doubt it will make them change their vote.

But what say you?

City folks are trying to escape the cities so end up living rural, meaning they could be soft targets for the lefty element because of their former city lifestyle. It's us folks on the farms/ranches that would not fall for the lefty propaganda. Even if a local area medical center/hospital did close, us country folks can travel to the next closest medical center.

 

[Moonglow]

NPR had an interview with some Democrat strategist on the radio today. Sorry, no link to that since it was a radio show.

The strategists observation was that Democrats need to go after rural voters, with an emphasis on the damage that the Medicaid cuts will do to rural hospitals. Here is a related story from a few days ago before the BBB was passed:

The Senate bill would cut more than $1 trillion from the program and the latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly 12 million people will lose health insurance if it becomes law. The plan would require able bodied adults to work 80 hours per month until age 65 to qualify for benefits, and would also cap and gradually reduce the tax states can impose on Medicaid providers.

"Medicaid cuts would place significant financial pressure on hospitals in rural states, where many hospitals are already at risk of closure. In more than half of states, reductions in Medicaid funding for rural hospitals would exceed 20%," according to the National Rural Health Association

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5451401/republicans-big-bill-could-hit-rural-hospitals-hard

I did not know that the government taxed Medicaid providers in this way to fund rural hospitals. So, this is a redistribution of wealth from the urban areas where wealth is created to rural areas, where food and other agri-products are produced. Also where many retirees live in order to avoid the high rents and taxes in urban areas.

Because of this wealth transfer, there are hospitals in rural areas whose populations demand for medical services might not support a hospital. The theory is that if these hospitals close and the rural residents who can vote will blame the GOP.

This may well resonate with some rural voters, but unless they actually see their hospital close - which will happen to very few - I doubt it will make them change their vote.

But what say you?

Elections have consequences.

 

[Moonglow]

City folks are trying to escape the cities so end up living rural, meaning they could be soft targets for the lefty element because of their former city lifestyle. It's us folks on the farms/ranches that would not fall for the lefty propaganda. Even if a local area medical center/hospital did close, us country folks can travel to the next closest medical center.

Which is how much farther away?

 

[Moonglow]

Well let's see, men can have periods and babies, trans freaks, DEI, can't define what a woman is...yeah that's rural as hell right there.

There are rural people like that, so what..

 

[jackflash]

Which is how much farther away?

From where I reside it would be about 20/25 more miles(one way) to reach the north end medical facilities located in the big city of Spokane.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Which is how much farther away?

Maybe another 15-20 minutes. But remember we judge distances different than city people. We start off 15-20 minutes from the gas station/liquor store and the grocery store. And that can easily turn into 30 minutes if someone is moving a combine or cattle or whatever else moves at about 5 mph. So if my doctor is suddenly 40 minutes away instead of 20 it’s not the end of the world.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

There are rural people like that, so what..

At the most we have a couple dykes here, they don’t bother anyone. And they weren’t in the running for rodeo queen anyway.

 

[lg325]

I think they lost us ''deplorables'' along time ago. There are issues where they can compete for votes but thier recent policy platforms have sunk them. But we do need a party that would better represent the working class rural voter.

 

[Seymour Flops]

City folks are trying to escape the cities so end up living rural, meaning they could be soft targets for the lefty element because of their former city lifestyle. It's us folks on the farms/ranches that would not fall for the lefty propaganda.

Well that is certainly a page out of the Democrats' playbook! Change the Demographics, to change the electorate. Good point.

Even if a local area medical center/hospital did close, us country folks can travel to the next closest medical center.

I don't know where Democrats get the idea that people in rural areas cannot drive automobiles. Maybe since people may never learn in New York, they think that's everyone.

 

[Seymour Flops]

From where I reside it would be about 20/25 more miles(one way) to reach the north end medical facilities located in the big city of Spokane.

Maybe another 15-20 minutes. But remember we judge distances different than city people. We start off 15-20 minutes from the gas station/liquor store and the grocery store. And that can easily turn into 30 minutes if someone is moving a combine or cattle or whatever else moves at about 5 mph. So if my doctor is suddenly 40 minutes away instead of 20 it’s not the end of the world.

Sure, and it isn't just rural folk who can do that. In Houston driving forty minutes is called "going to work."

When we retire, maybe we'll move out of the city and talk to neighbors about being on call for each other for emergency hospital trips. I don't know why Dems think nobody can think for themselves.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Sure, and it isn't just rural folk who can do that. In Houston driving forty minutes is called "going to work."

When we retire, maybe we'll move out of the city and talk to neighbors about being on call for each other for emergency hospital trips. I don't know why Dems think nobody can think for themselves.

They can’t even comprehend people not needing them. They insist the government has to do everything for you or you can’t do it.

Most of us know if we want healthcare we need to go earn some money, that’s how it works. But democrats don’t think anyone but them is capable of doing that.

 

[Zincwarrior]

NPR had an interview with some Democrat strategist on the radio today. Sorry, no link to that since it was a radio show.

The strategists observation was that Democrats need to go after rural voters, with an emphasis on the damage that the Medicaid cuts will do to rural hospitals. Here is a related story from a few days ago before the BBB was passed:

The Senate bill would cut more than $1 trillion from the program and the latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly 12 million people will lose health insurance if it becomes law. The plan would require able bodied adults to work 80 hours per month until age 65 to qualify for benefits, and would also cap and gradually reduce the tax states can impose on Medicaid providers.

"Medicaid cuts would place significant financial pressure on hospitals in rural states, where many hospitals are already at risk of closure. In more than half of states, reductions in Medicaid funding for rural hospitals would exceed 20%," according to the National Rural Health Association

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5451401/republicans-big-bill-could-hit-rural-hospitals-hard

I did not know that the government taxed Medicaid providers in this way to fund rural hospitals. So, this is a redistribution of wealth from the urban areas where wealth is created to rural areas, where food and other agri-products are produced. Also where many retirees live in order to avoid the high rents and taxes in urban areas.

Because of this wealth transfer, there are hospitals in rural areas whose populations demand for medical services might not support a hospital. The theory is that if these hospitals close and the rural residents who can vote will blame the GOP.

This may well resonate with some rural voters, but unless they actually see their hospital close - which will happen to very few - I doubt it will make them change their vote.

But what say you?

The ones that survive after 500 hospitals close.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The ones that survive after 500 hospitals close.

Oh for **** sakes, A hundred hospitals per state are going to close? STFU.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The ones that survive after 500 hospitals close.

Let's talk after the 500 hospitals close.

Or can you name them now and show me the plan to close them?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Let's talk after the 500 hospitals close.

Or can you name them now and show me the plan to close them?

Its from the CBO. You low grade moron. DIE MAGAS DIE.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Its from the CBO. You low grade moron. DIE MAGAS DIE.

But we won’t die. We have doctors and medical facilities.