The rural United States suffers another cut from the deregulatory knife. No grocer. No rail service. No bus service. No retail. No health care. And now no telecommunications. What’s next, electric?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-v...
If they don't, then democracy is done. Right now, thanks to the EC, a rural vote is worth more than anyone else's. If you're right, then the rest of us had better find a way to disenfranchise them, and soon.
So... are you sure you're right?
EDIT: Obviously I don't have solid data that what people want isn't discussed, but the general metabolism of US politics appears to be: newspapers, cable news, and podcasts raise an issue (which may or may not be relevant), and that's what politicians respond to. I typed a lot more illustrating how this is at best tangentially related to what people want to see change, but I'm not trying to rehash the communication dysfunction of this country.
>In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody.
No wonder we are not voting for it, the government continually promises to connect people and does nothing.
The 42 billion could have bought every single rural American a Starlink terminal and had a bunch of money left over.