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Summary
A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.
Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.
Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.
This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.
Exactly
Most rural “middle class” voters that fuel Red states are people who’ve been failed by the education system in one way or another, and distrust authority because of it. But they lack the media literacy to make distrust of authority positive. Instead, they are easily manipulated by crucial social figureheads.
“I distrust all authority except the ones that lie to me and make me feel good!”
Because they’re made to believe that they’re the underdog and so is the media they consume.
#1 news channel, #1 most viewed show Sean Hannity: “the main stream media are all liars!”
“Main stream” as if they aren’t the most popular show…
Helps that the party hated the same groups they do which is very important, and has God by their side. Might not agree with everything, but God is the one pillar of belief they will stand by no matter how much everyone suffers.
A group the church promotes is the holy one. You wouldn’t go against God would you just because those dirty heathens offer some enticing programs would you? That’s a road straight to hell.
Do they feel good though? Or are they in a perpetual state of fear and believe that there is nothing else out there but a zero sum game where everybody is out there to win at their loss?
The latter i think
I’ve always found it so ironic that the dipshits that let Faux “News” and hate radio take a dump in their skull every day, all day long, will go on and on about “the media”.
Me: “You mean the media you cannot tear yourself away from? The media that gives you your every thought? Do you really not see that your chosen outlets are also, by DEFINITION…‘the media’?”
It’s as if these people were to sit there talking about “the soda industry” or “the sneaker industry”, while intending those comments to be directed at only a subset of those industries, while being cult-like adherents to the rest of it.
They also live in areas with cable monopolies and no fiber alternative. You wouldn’t believe how aggressively the right-wing ads hammer these people every 15 minutes.
Not even gonna mention the radio, my god. I work construction, there are rules about what’s allowed on a jobsjte. Usually I’m on the side of “I don’t wanna hear your radio and you don’t wanna hear mine” because JAYSUS CHRIST the shit mfers like Jon Boy & Billy just casually throw out is atrocious
The radio gets worse the deeper you get into BFE, because often the only reliable radio stations you’ll get out there are all AM talk radio stations that have been thoroughly bought out by Murdoch et al.
Are you counting Putin’s psyops programs on social media as right wing too?
Why wouldn’t you?
education system in red states in intentionally trashed by the gop to keep them thinking that way. in blue states its just neglected/underfunded in some areas. of thousands of people at my HS, the HS made it look like only a small handful are going to succeed in life and basically rubbing in the rest of student bodies face, “look at them and look at you, what do you have to show for it” everyone in the audience rolled thier eyes when they "paraded the high gpa earners, we know were being very condescending.