because they know their uneducated flock are gonna continue to vote for them.

heres the crazy thing tho. urban areas..which are usually dem leaning...are insulated from a lot of regressive repub policies. cities have the infrastructure, the technology, the social services, the labor force, the well-knit communities, etc to help provide for the needs of their citizens to a basic degree (at least).

but rural areas...which are voting more and more heavily repub...are literally voting for the people who are killing them. allowing polluters to contaminate their waterways, halting their social services, pushing opiods into their communities, closing their hospitals and medical facilities, etc.

life expectancy in this country has dropped for a 3rd straight year. almost unheard of in a developed industrial nation. that only happens when large amounts of the majority demographic are dying off. and this is largely due to white people overdosing and committing suicide (both rising).

the suicide rate in rural areas is *double* the rate of urban areas. yet rural voters are still voting for the people perpetuating the conditions they live/die under.

its like white people are perfectly fine being driven into extinction by white people.