Conservative politics are an easy sell in rural areas. But the problem is: they just *CANNOT* deliver.
To stop the decline of the rural America, a level of government intervention would be required that is 100% incompatible with the conservative core ideology.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/6Y6szBDWu6w
Hypocrisy isn't a problem to the mindset of a conservative, though. Telling them logical statements about how they can't get what they want out of the thing they're doing doesn't work, because they don't trust logic.
They trust the reptile brain telling them to eat the weak. :\
@sydneyfalk I did not want to address the conservatives themselves. They are beyond my reach. But I want to address those people who elect them because they have a hope they may get help from those. I want to make clear these hopes are in vain. Not because conservative politicians are dishonest (though they may be) but because in order to "help" the rural areas, measures need to be implemented that conservatives never will approve.
(but I do understand that, and approve to trying to tell the unknowing-out-of-desperation and desperately-in-denial sort who WANT better things)
