Summary

A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.

Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.

Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.

This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      because the system they exist in keeps them in the dark, and is programming them to be fanatically terrified of being woken up

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        Exactly

        Most rural “middle class” voters that fuel Red states are people who’ve been failed by the education system in one way or another, and distrust authority because of it. But they lack the media literacy to make distrust of authority positive. Instead, they are easily manipulated by crucial social figureheads.

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          They also live in areas with cable monopolies and no fiber alternative. You wouldn’t believe how aggressively the right-wing ads hammer these people every 15 minutes.

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            Do they feel good though? Or are they in a perpetual state of fear and believe that there is nothing else out there but a zero sum game where everybody is out there to win at their loss?