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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Withdrawing from the TPP was a huge blow the U.S. agriculture industry, squandering an opportunity for a $62 billion market for U.S. farmers. The American Soybean Association, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and the American Farm Bureau strongly condemned the move that left farmers dismayed with Trump.
Opioid Crisis: Jeff Sessions promise to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" on "low-level" drug charges left politicians from middle-America angry. Rand Paul responded: "We should treat our nation's drug epidemic as a health crisis and less as a 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' problem." The Trump administrations police-state approach to drug offenses is a return to the failed policies of the last 30 years that left families destroyed and prisons over-flowing.
Health Care: Rural areas, especially those will a high percentage of elderly, will bear the brunt of the ACA repeal. Costs have risen under the ACA, but elimination of subsidies will make health insurance completely unaffordable for many.
Its unfortunate that so many rural voters rely purely on fringe identity issues to cast their ballots. In 2016, belief that Hillary was running a sex-trafficking ring out of pizza parlor was as much of a deciding issue as health care. How many times have we heard from these people that Obama is a "Muslim-communist" and refugees will institute Sharia-law. The more our country embraces the "alt-right," the more we devolve into pure idiocy.
Seems the midwest and the rural areas will be hardest hit by Trump's bad decisions. I feel sorry for some of them. They got conned and they really thought that Trump cared about them and thought he would help them. This isn't much different than those people that got conned by Trump University.
It's a sad day for America when any Americans are hurt, regardless of who they voted for.
If TrumpCare passes and people can't get health insurance due to pre-existing conditions, they'll be hurt again.
Ok so first it was hate everyone in the Midwest. But now it's changed to feel sorry for them? And they voted against Hillary because of pizzagate? I'm sure that would be news to most of them. And TPP was the worst trade deal the modern world has ever seen.
I'm not a republican and neither are most of the people who voted for trump. You guys are so far detached from reality it's amazing. Move on. Put your party back together while it still exists.
Ok so first it was hate everyone in the Midwest. But now it's changed to feel sorry for them? And they voted against Hillary because of pizzagate? I'm sure that would be news to most of them. And TPP was the worst trade deal the modern world has ever seen.
I'm not a republican and neither are most of the people who voted for trump. You guys are so far detached from reality it's amazing. Move on. Put your party back together while it still exists.
Trump hasn't done anything for these people. The biggest myth in this election was that Trump was a friend of the working-class. Unfortunately we have Fox News and the Koch Brothers that do their best to slander any liberal who runs for office.
No president has done anything other than wage all out war with middle America and the working class for over 30 years. Dem, Repub it doesn't matter. They are tools of the banking and financial systems, the global elite. Reagan, bush, Clinton - gore, Obama, probably trump.
Ok so first it was hate everyone in the Midwest. But now it's changed to feel sorry for them? And they voted against Hillary because of pizzagate? I'm sure that would be news to most of them. And TPP was the worst trade deal the modern world has ever seen.
I'm not a republican and neither are most of the people who voted for trump. You guys are so far detached from reality it's amazing. Move on. Put your party back together while it still exists.
I can only speak for myself, but I've always been concerned with the Midwest being conned. It's where I'm from, where many of my friends are, and where most of my family is. One of the main issues I've had with Trump in regards to this region is that he pretends he is different in watching out for these people. He says he's going to drain the swamp, and instead packs his administration with swamp people responsible for one of the biggest recessions in American history.
But I'm an Independent, and don't speak for anyone that should be putting any party together.
Ok so first it was hate everyone in the Midwest. But now it's changed to feel sorry for them?
I am just an individual - one person with one opinion. I never hated people in the midwest. In fact, I like the people in the midwest, a lot. I realize that people vote for many different reasons and some voted because they really believed that Trump would bring back jobs. Yes, I have empathy for these folks. They were conned. Do I wish they would have realized that Trump was a con-man? Yes. But I don't hate them for voting their choice.
I'm not very happy with Trump, as a citizen of rural America.
I guess us rural people should just get over it and expect that no one care about our plight. Once a politician gets elected they forget that rural people exist. It's not a Trump thing, or a Republican thing, a Clinton thing, or a Democrat thing, it's a politician thing.
I don't think Clinton would have done anything for rural people, when she campaigned she only did so in big cities. She didn't really care about rural people either.
Rural America just needs Jobs, Healthcare, and better trade deals. Maybe even better care for our elderly citizens but that's probably to much to ask from the government.
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