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[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 85 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Definitely a misdirect from the corporate takeover of everything.

I grew up in a shitty small rural town, but while I was in high school I watched the shitty “mom and pop” stores slowly disappear and the local factory vote against unionization only to be closed a few years after I moved away. You know what immediately moved in to fill the void? Wal-Mart and Dollar General.

My dad was so focused on immigrants taking his job and other insane republican economic talking points that he lost that job when the company decided it wasn’t cost effective to operate in the US anymore.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

You must have lived down the street from me. We had a few mom and pop joints, two local restaurants, and "the plant". They didn't get Walmart but now they've got the world's worst Dairy Queen, the world's second worst Sonic, and two different brands of dollar store.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago*

TBH some of the points were right. Democrats took big bucks from corporations too, especially Big Tech and basically anything focused in metros.

And it was also a distraction.

Rural folks should have voted differently, yeah, but it was an easy trap to fall into. I blame propagandists and cowards taking money, not them.

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