It’s a Fact: Republican Run Red States Have America’s Highest Poverty Rates

Dems seem to have crime, repubs seem to have mass poverty. Hmmm.. seems like two scarred lovers in a battle, they both are toxic and both talk crap behind each other backs, the kids (us citizens) tend to suffer from their divorce. Politics feel somewhat like Gossip Girl 🤣

https://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/18/fact-republican-run-red-states-americas-highest-poverty-rates.html

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M Best Comment

I just think that there is a massive causality isdue with either argument.

Democrats run urban areas which have more crime

Republicans run rural areas which have less money.

The left/right - urban/rural voting demographics are similar in other countries too. It's not down to democrats being crap at dealing with crime or republicans being crap at making money. It's just not.

Thinking about why urban areas vote left and rural areas vote right is an interesting field of inquiry though.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@Burnley123 Never thought about it that way. Makes sense.

MethDozer · M

@Burnley123 That's pretty accurate and objectivist imho..

Correlation not meaning causation blah, blah, blah.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 This is accurate and kind of why I wrote this to begin with.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 Well actually what inspired this post was a conservative on here saying that all Democrat cities have crime but someone else mentioned the highest poverty red states so there's that. But I felt like I had to be an equal opportunist with this one, it just wouldn't be fair.

BohoBabe · M

@Burnley123 Keep in mind that it's not just urban vs rural. Blue states are safer and richer than red states. And left-leaning countries are safer and richer than right-leaning countries.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@BohoBabe Yeah like the Taliban would be considered conservative and conservatives in the United States have said borderline comments admiring the Taliban.

BohoBabe · M

@SatanBurger

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@BohoBabe Wow 1,849 likes is kind of scary.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@BohoBabe I don't disagree. There are causality arguments against that though.

BohoBabe · M

@SatanBurger Fuentes is pretty big on the Right. He held a rally that Marjorie Trainwreck Greene spoke at.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@BohoBabe That's what I've always said, the religious conservative people should be allies not enemies; they have exactly the same values!

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@JimboSaturn Just disagreeing politely, in my opinion they don't have the same values though, their values lay at returning America to the bible which is backwards.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@SatanBurger All I know is that my right wing Catholic side of my family share more values of the Taliban than I do.

BohoBabe · M

@SatanBurger Sure, but all religious Conservatives want the same thing. They just use different religions to justify their far-right beliefs. For Righties in Iran and Saudi Arabia, it's Islam. Here in America, it's Protestantism. In the growing fascist movements in Italy, Poland, and Hungary, it's Catholicism. In Putin's Russia, it's Eastern Orthodoxy.
But the beliefs are all the same. No Democracy, no women's rights, queers get killed, and the workers are kept poor.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@BohoBabe Couldn't have said it better, agreed.