Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
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Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#2I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it.
Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damage they're doing to their country by fracturing its cohesiveness?
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#3I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
It's not just the republicans doing it it's our entire government.
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#4I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
They don't consider themselves to be in community with poor people.
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#5I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
The United States of America is more of a corporation than a country. Would you offer support for people who aren’t your customers?
People who don’t donate to the party, who can’t organize worth a dang to vote you out, well, they are unimportant and programs for them should be dismantled.
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#6I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
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Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#7I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
There is no way to ask this question here without it devolving deep into politics, but here we go.
Republicans don't have policy to run on. They pander to their base, while also laughing behind their back [1]. Their base votes for them because these representatives appeal to their feelings, even though the people they vote for are actively harming them (red states are finally, begrudgingly, adopting Federal Medcaid expansion funding because they have workforce shortages [2]).
Because of the electoral college, there is no way to fix this for presidential elections [3] and rural America is heavily overrepresented congressionally. States with resources can provide for their own citizens (California is the world's fifth largest economy, for example), rural America will continue to slowly die a slow death as young people leave for opportunity [4], leaving behind those with oversized voting power.
Your options are leave the parts of the country in decline, leave the country, or stay in decline. It's not great [5].
[1] https://www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-the-media-should-stop-trea...
[2] https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/status-o...
[3] https://demcastusa.com/2019/11/11/land-doesnt-vote-people-do...
[4] https://stateline.org/2021/08/10/shrinking-rural-america-fac...
[5] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027162211070061
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#8This program was not for the "poor". I know because I got this discount, and I do not need it at all.
Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#9I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
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Re: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
#10I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it. Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damag…
It's not just the republicans doing it it's our entire government.
In this case, it's literally Republicans.