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My wife's rural Idaho family:
Parents live off Social Security and Medicare. Dad drives a dump truck during the summer and gets laid off every winter when it freezes. He files for unemployment and that's their income until the construction company starts back up after the thaw.
Sister who's a CNA at the VA. She's already seen the robot they're going to use to replace CNAs. Has 2 adult sons who live at home and dropped out of high school. The oldest just sits at home smoking weed and playing video games with his live-in girlfriend. She has another son still in school, we'll online "school", who I'm sure won't graduate either.
Sister with 1 son in prison and the other has Cerebral PA Sy. They live off Medicaid, welfare, SSI, and the tiny stipend she gets from being his caregiver. In the 22 years I've known her, she's had 1 part-time job as a teacher's assistant for 2 years.
They all vote straight R and are deep MAGA.
All chock full of opinions, deeply bereft of facts
Gonna enter the finding out stage pretty soon.
They are. And my wife has already said that we wont help them when it happens. They need to feel the pain of their votes.