This article presents an interesting theory: the reason why GOP doesn't want a stimulus before the election is due to a distortion in the way our democracy works, specifically the US . In this particular upcoming election, due largely to gerrymandering no doubt, most GOP senate seats are safe from Democrats. But what senators fear the most is being primaried. So this is how the incumbants circle the wagons-- they can point to their gop challengers as treasonous for supporting "Blue State bailouts". An absurd argument even among the larger republican population, but i guess it could stick in weirdly gerrymandered ad-saturated extremist districts.

nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/1

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@mettaben gerrymandering may play a role, but there is also simply a massive cultural divide between rural and urban areas.

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