2016 Postmortem

You can't just look at STATE total unemployment rates to get the picture. State totals include urban areas, which have a hell of a lot more jobs. The rural unemployment rate is going to be considerably higher. This is what I mean when I say these people are being ignored. Funding for programs to help people in poverty goes mostly to urban areas. Jobs go mostly to urban areas. People in rural areas are goddamned struggling to just survive and haven't thrived since the 70's or 80's. While democrats are arguing for legalizing the recreational use of marijuana no one is even paying attention to the very REAL suffering of these people. And when they have finally said screw you for ignoring their plight and vote against the ones that don't notice their desperation they get called racists and dozens of people here say things like, "Well screw them if they vote for Trump!" Here's the thing...the have been getting screwed for the last 2 decades anyway...why should they care what Democrats think now? Now the question is what is the Democratic Party going to do about it?