We live in a society that favors money over care. We were talking about healthcare at the time, but it is something that can be attributed to pretty much everything else. It's why you are in so much debt to pay for a vehicle you need to get to places. It's why you have to pay thousands of dollars for college tuition. It's why you pay high property taxes in a popular city. We've worshipped the dollar while ignoring the beggar. Please, make no mistake you and I and others like us are beggars. We took away at jobs we might not like for little pay that gets us by for the next two weeks. We struggle to save our money for worthwhile ventures only for the next overdue bill or, god forbid, emergency to wipe us out. We live on the razors edge between prosperity and oblivion and always leaning into destruction. Meanwhile, our bosses and their bosses and their bosses make that money. That's all well and good. Can't fault them for trying to be better. But they make that money while we have to scrape by in food stamps! We try to make things better for ourselves, but they point the fingers elsewhere and tell us "it's those people's fault. Be mad at them?" Seriously, those people? The very same ones that are struggling in the very same situation as we are? They are not the ones telling us we can't get paid sick days. The are not the ones telling us we don't deserve a higher minimum wage while also making millions. It is the bosses of this country, the ones who sit at the table making those big decisions that lower their taxes but keeps ours high and send the jobs we work overseas. We don't have banks full of money to pay those taxes but they buy luxury cars off of your backs! You all know the saying; divide and conquer, right? We've been divided up, angry at the wrong people. These people have been battered by the same machine that is beating you right now except in different, insidious ways. We are the People! Every single one of us. Doesn't matter what color you are or what God you pray to or whether or not you're a guy or gal or identify as one or the other or neither! Keep that anger but make sure it is aimed true! It's time to take our fight to the ones who are truly at fault and demand that they give us Medicare for all, free college tuition and debt forgiveness, a higher minimum wage, etc.
That or something to that effect is a possible way to sell it to rural areas. Redirect their anger and frustration to the real targets. It won't be easy of course, but it can happen. Most of the conservative people I've talked to know deep down that corporations are shitty and will do anything for a buck. Could even throw in some scripture, too.
