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Date Posted: 22:30:08 06/25/21 Fri
Author: Mark
Subject: Re: An article I think you guys will find interesting
In reply to: Jason 's message, "Re: An article I think you guys will find interesting" on 21:44:09 06/25/21 Fri

My favorite smoker girl from rural Missouri fits the profile you describe perfectly, entirely dependent upon public assistance for every aspect of her survival, but votes reflexively Republican over cultural issues.....because there's no longer a political consequence for her not to vote Republican. If there was, she wouldn't vote Republican. And Republicans have a decidedly built-in advantage in American politics for the foreseeable future because of people like her.

I'd be curious to know the numbers on "urban single mothers who are a 100% Democratic voting block" compared to rural and exurban single mothers from trailer park towns in Middle America, a voting bloc that in the Trump era is as monolithically Republican as the urban single moms are monolithically Democrat. Keep in mind that the state with the lowest employment participation rate is West Virginia, which Trump won by 42 points.

And I'm also curious what the outlays are for single mother welfare in comparison to middle-aged health care welfare. I used "insulin" as a generalized example because diabetes rates are exploding and our bonkers way of financing health care has allowed drug companies to hyperinflate insulin costs and mostly pass the costs along to taxpayers. The middle-aged diabetics in Cookeville, Tennessee, receiving subsidized health care to pay for their $20,000-a-year insulin treatments certainly don't see themselves as "those people" on "those programs", but if they haven't yet surpassed the welfare footprint of the "urban single mother with the bastard children", they will soon. This is why Paul Ryan's vision of the Republican Party is as extinct as the woolly mammoth for the rest of both of our lives.

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