The first google result I found shows that in Michigan, 2.8 million people voted for Trump and 2.72 mil voted for Kamala. Telling over 2.5 million people that voted for your party "fuck you and die for where you live" doesn't seem like a winning strategy, but I'm also not a professional consultant.
On re-reading a bit later, I should clarify: withholding medical aid/funds from the 2.8 million people who DIDN'T vote for your party is also stupid and evil. I was trying to use logic to explain why I hate the liberal tendency to write off "red states" as monolithic shitholes filled with mud orcs.
Buddy, the Republicans these people voted for are the ones withholding the funds!
I agree: Trump voters are all stupid selfish assholes. I hate them! But the reddest counties in the US still have Kamala voters living in them; yet they're still included in blue state libs' geography-based political revenge fantasies. That sucks! "FAFO" based on an electoral map is Nazi shit, man
Buddy, I'm a blue voter in a red state. I've had to watch these ghouls dismantle the health and educational infrastructure that supports their rural base's bucolic fantasy lifestyles as they subsidize the poisoning of my drinking water for over a decade and I'm done caring. Fuck them.
So you're not actually reading what I'm saying, and you're somehow doing the exact thing I'm describing even though you're one of the people I'm attempting to defend. Cool. Also I'm beginning to think we're not actually buddies.
You aren't trying to defend me. You're trying to defend a rural Democrat you made up in your mind. I actually know and come from those people and we don't want coastal Dems scolding each other about who they can and can't be mean to, we want help crushing the party that is making life worse for us!
I was actually talking about myself, not "a rural democrat I made up in my mind" and I regretted my wording immediately I live in a town of 600 people, and a county of 24,000, and I'm sick of coastal dems fantasizing about collective punishment -- a point you seem to be missing deliberately now.
also an important thing I keep stupidly forgetting to mention is that I'm only talking about voter numbers because the posts quoted in the OP are specifically about withholding aid based on voting -- but children don't vote, and lib shitheads still want them punished for the sins of their fathers
Shit, then the guy they voted for probably shouldn't have done that, huh?
No one said that. Trumps cuts will lead to suffering for everyone
I guess I still didn't make my point clear, because I agree with you: I'm complaining (poorly) that I'm sick of liberals using fascist rhetoric (such as "decline to bail out hospitals") about rural areas. Everyone suffering is the point that is being missed by people treating IRL like a Civ IV map.
I think you made the point well
You don’t understand. Trumps cuts to medicade will close hospitals. This isn’t a hypothetical
I understand completely. But nobody seems interested in reading what I'm actually saying, so try this for a hypothetical: Once people start dying, what if liberals chose to give a shit, and NOT say "fuck em, shouldn't have voted MAGA" about a human being just because they lived on a dirt road?
Do you have a different proposal? They're going to do that anyway, the question is just whether it's the more or less efficient half.