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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by TuringNYC on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:01AM (#13905538)
Access to medical care, therapy, especially for the poor have always been a top-3 Democrat platform item. Here is one plan HRC had: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/29/clinton-proposes-plan-to-addr...

w/r/t the Heroin problem, for a generation, Republicans have pushed an agenda of criminalizing drug addiction, labeling it a moral issue and throwing victims into prison. That worked to their agenda when it was a big urban problem affecting swaths of minorities. As a bonus, it also ups private for-profit prison populations, another Republican agenda. Now that it is a rural scourge amongst white Americans, Republicans are having a difficult time reconciling their previous lack of empathy, so they are mostly silent.

I'm a "city-dweller" and while I'm registered Republican I generally vote Democratic. My taxes go up as a 1%-er, but i'm 100% to have my taxes go up to support my fellow Americans.

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by loeg on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:26AM (#13907632)
> w/r/t the Heroin problem, for a generation, Republicans have pushed an agenda of criminalizing drug addiction, labeling it a moral issue and throwing victims into prison.

Don't forget that Dems were also strongly for this platform in the 90s under Clinton.

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:14PM (#13924701)
They weren't strongly for this. They edged towards it just enough to win enough of the white people who had fallen for scaremongering (and often racist) propaganda put out by Republicans so they wouldn't lose and then have no ability to change the policy.

"Both sides are the same" is a rallying cry of people who know that one side is actually much worse.

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by LoonyBalloony on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:52PM (#13908583)
If a political party is not entirely for the end of the drug war... they get tossed in the trash. They're lucky they get to hang out with the garbage IMO.
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