Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Soulless): ‘Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access To Health Care’

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Of course, neither he, his family nor the GOP ever have to find out if that's true.

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There are still Dems in WV and rural areas of Virginia so I don't think it's just that "white working" has abandoned - there's a lot of chicken and egg to that issue because Dems really HAVEN'T tried to dissociate themselves from the "elite" label or do anything to change their own narrative. And there's a lot to be said about just how run down and absolutely trashed some of the poorest areas are. Dems write it off and Repubs know it's easy picking so they make a lot of promises and not keep them, It's all lose-lose...

I'm not saying Dems have to run everyone everywhere and pour money into everything but they have to at LEAST make an effort to get some skin back in the game outside of their safe urban districts. There's elections for mayor, elections for board of education (and srsly - think of how much THAT would pay off to have Democratic-leaning school board people who get to decide funding and decide whether their kids get ACTUAL sex education and write rules about discussing sexuality or adding Creationism to science class) , there's delegates to state houses, etc. The Republicans figured out in the early 2000s that was where to target and it's paid off BIG TIME.