Reddit mentions of The Great Depression

I literally did rural voter outreach in the midwest as well as general campaigning in the large cities, including areas that went Obama Obama Trump (OOT).

One of the biggest problems with outreach is that there IS an upper limit to lies and there is a difference between failing and lying in most people's eyes.

Most of the OOT areas I've worked were huge Sanders districts as well and there's a reason for that. People believe he genuinely wanted to improve their lives and he had a good history of proving it. No one would have actually expected him to enact more than a tenth of what he talked about if that, but the things he wanted to aim for were very much in their interest. This is a big area where Clinton fell apart. Not only was Clinton ignoring cities that had under 100k people, but her entire record is clearly opportunistic. Her principles and stances at any time seem to just be her taking a pulse of where the nation is at and following it to the best she can without having to go out on a limb.

When Clinton 'added' the $15/hr to her platform, everyone knew it was bullshit. If Sanders got in they felt he would have fought for 15 and settled if he absolutely had to, but with Clinton they knew she'd at best add a couple of dollars and schedule the shift far enough out to make the increase practically worthless.

The dems routinely forget that in the early 20th century, farmers were largely communists and socialists and that they were often so radicalized they had no problem using guns to literally fight evictions. In one book I read there were stories of shotgun circles used to fight back eviction from the sheriffs office by basically telling them they'll kill the sheriff and the bank owners if they tried to evict them. All the farmers in a small town would agree to join any attempt at eviction because together they could out gun law enforcement. In another book I read news articles about actual sieges farmers and small communities would lead on bank owners where they'd literally starve them so they couldn't evict them, their motto being "You can eat your gold".

This belief that rural areas have to be Republican forever is total nonsense. They were some of the most radicalized leftists for about 30 years and many of them still could be. The reason they're right wing now is the Dems have completely given up on reaching them and honestly offer them absolutely nothing in return. Republicans, especially locally, are often the only ones addressing rural issues at all or even acknowledging them. Anyone who's lived in hyper rural areas might already know that many already have a form of semi-single payer, where the county will hire a doctor to be the county doc using tax money and they'll be required to treat everyone in the county. This is often because hospitals are so far away that it's just simply cheaper to hand a newly minted doctor a fat paycheck and a free house/clinic to live in.

They're not against many Dem ideas at all, they just rightly know the party doesn't give a shit about them and the Republicans at least feign interest.