And that right there is why you'll never get anywhere.
Dont be naive, rural voters (who are predominantly racist) arent going to stop voting Republican in record numbers. Democrats need to offer avenues for rural communities to be able to escape rural areas, not subsidize them (which we already do). Things like job retraining, helping pay for moving, etc.
The problem is they don't want to adapt to the changing environment, just like how coal miners want the coal jobs back despite automation and the cheaper alternatives killing it off. They dont want to hear about us trying to retrain them for actual better jobs, they want what they know back.
I sympathize with them and I am still young, but I recognize that one have to adapt.
It's not just rural towns for which $15 is insane for, but saying fuck you got mine to them sure is nice. There are plenty of cities that are only city in name, when it reality they're sprawling suburbs with low cost of living, in fact the majority of cities are that way.
There is a reason for a head of state to go with reasonable, better standards, but going for a more reasonable $12 is suddenly the dividing line between neoliberal centrism and leftism now?
And what even is selling out defined as? I suppose Obama's a sell-out because he didn't get everything he promised done even though literally nobody would be able to pass anything you'd want with the teaparty in power and thus everyone is a sell-out.
FYI, I never said we shouldn't help rural areas. Those areas are dying because U.S is undergoing urbanization and rural areas are inefficient as hell. Only some of them can thrive, but much of it will become job starved as manufacturing decays and cities change zoning laws.
My saying we shouldn't throw others under the bus under false pretenses of helping or saving those areas is because they have to move.
The sprawl you mentioned is definitely an issue, but they are still metro areas that can largely absorb the cost of $15 minimum wage and arent seeing job decay. It's the rural areas that cant, but that cant be fixed, they have to move with the market. I rant about urban sprawl all the time and participate in many urban development threads, I didnt forget them.
To the bold, you are thinking of someone else, I never made that claim.
A sell out is a politician who gives a promise of certain policies or positions, then once elected to office, change their tune. Better have a damn good reason, show effort. Not sure why you are using Obama as an example, but no.
Obama was naive and unwilling to do what was necessary to pass ACA through such as calling for an end to the filibuster, not a sellout in my book.
