Rural vs. Urban? They're different, for sure.

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5. republicans have a great propaganda scam, that any and every bad regulation is the democrats' fault

yes, bad regulations exist. good regulation requires constant monitoring and updating, constant feedback from constituents, constant revision to cater to changes in the market and technology and so on.

much of it is not the fault of democrats or republicans anyway, it's just a matter of a few bureaucrats not getting it right, or some regulation that wasn't updated. for instance, perhaps the feces check regulation came first, then they decided to ban the selling of fallen fruit, but forgot to remove the feces check that not longer made sense.

or maybe it was a democrat, but that's no reason to punish the entire party, or vote for a different president based on what some state-level bureaucrat did.


but the republicans and the media (but i repeat myself) always spin it as if all bad regulations are our fault, and that all regulations are as bad as the one worst example they can find, and that somehow gutting large swaths of regulation wholesale with the help of industry lobbyists will remove all the bad ones and keep only the good ones.


democrats fundamentally are in favor not of regulation per se, but of good governance. it costs nothing to say "that sounds like a dumb regulation. i'll see what i can do about it."