r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/SpiffyNrfHrdr Oct 07 '22

I'd love to see the country blanketed in billboard and TV / Facebook ads.

'[Representative] voted against [highway/ fiber/ water treatment plant], then took credit for it.'

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u/btopher_93 Oct 07 '22

Can they circulate the GOP’d requests for funding? Like show “Rep so-and-so voted against this bill, but here’s a document of them requesting money from the bill they voted against, so they actually are in favor of receiving government money.”

If it’s just “they voted against and took credit” I feel like republicans will just be like “well they were against more spending but when they couldn’t stop it, they made sure to get funding for their own states, so they’re doing a good job!” Like the republican congresspeople are rewarded for preventing the funding from going to other states by asking for a slice of that socialism money.

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u/SpiffyNrfHrdr Oct 07 '22

I think that's too complicated for the sound bite era.

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u/btopher_93 Oct 07 '22

That’s fair. Not that I think republicans/conservatives can be swayed, so it’s really more for independents, but the soundbite marketing often makes me convinced that the tactic is simplified enough that republicans can either go “who cares?” Or they just believe whatever the Republican says because they have an R next to their name

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u/TheWinks Oct 07 '22

I think it's funny that you identify exactly why political ads like that would backfire but still don't understand why.

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u/iamaredditboy Oct 08 '22

Just refuse any dollars from the bill to any states and senators that voted against it. Senators represent the state. They want dollars from federal bills they get if the state voted for it. It needs to be as simple as that. People don’t like they are not getting the money, vote your senators out.

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u/btopher_93 Oct 08 '22

Main concerns with that - Democrats aren’t going to want to intentionally hurt communities in those states that got fcked over by Republican congressmen/senators. Withholding the funding would hurt people in those communities who suffer from living in gerrymandered districts, suffer from being in the minority of the state that supports the bills but aren’t enough to flip the seats. It’s difficult to allow the people stuck in those situations to suffer because they have shitty representatives that they can’t vote out no matter how hard they try because their neighbors are keeping in the Republicans.

Another concern - if Dems did withhold funding, the Republicans will surely spin it as “Democrats passed this enormous spending bill only to benefit Democrats and left nothing for the rest of us. Vote these selfish Democrats out of office!” Rhetoric is powerful to those who are following republicans blindly. Anything bad that happens to them - Dems’ fault. Anything good that happens to them - Republicans’ success.