Blue collar workers overwhelmingly bought Reagans plastic coated flag-waving bullshit and started voting against their interests consistently. By the time Fox News and talk radio rolled around they were completely fucking brainwashed. Still are today.

I don’t see how calling them undereducated buffoons is an argument for or against whether the Democrats have alienated them either way.

And for the record, they were only too happy to vote for flag waving white Jesus over the future of themselves or the country. They alienated themselves.

most areas have ISP monolopies, which is somewhat understandable given the high infrastructure costs etc. For that reason they should be regulated as utilities, but aren't because high speed internet isn't legally "essential" in the year of our lord 2025.

chanted by the same people flying "Don't tread on me" flags. what a joke.

Wow. Every time I read about Comcast I'm reminded why I hate them so much.

I pay $89/mo for gigabit fiber and a static IP through a local ISP. Not comcast. Hopefully never again.

I probably have pretty close to the top of the curve with 1140mbps up/down according to my plan. In actuality though my speed test reads at 864 up and 859 down.

because the republican party has split the lower and middle classes with fear mongering and emotionally charged cultural wedge issues. e.g. abortion, gun control, "war on christianity", immigration, vaccine "freedom", etc etc.

It's not understandable at all. The telcos took nearly a trillion dollars from tax payers back in the 2000s to get broadband to everyone in the USA....and they basically stole it.

…and they basically stole it

It's the American way. We're honestly lucky that it wasn't feasible for the big telecoms to build their own versions of the Internet, or there'd be several of those too.

I get 100 down, 50 up, which is the max for my ISP. They're putting in fiber this year or next, so I'll probably upgrade once that happens.

Highest I've ever gotten was 200 down/10 up. My current is 50 down/10 up.

I pretty much always pay for the highest grade service in the area. Each time I've bought a home, I've researched the ISPs that service it and that also affected what the homes value was to me.

Not really a lie, just needs to come with a history lesson. The America First Committee was a fascist political group. Once you know that then it makes a lot more sense.

Funds allocated throughout the years have NEVER actually gone to providing/increasing broadband in rural areas.

Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don't even bother voting. It doesn't change anything.

You keep talking about how they voted "for" this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn't vote for anything at all.

Never say never. There are actually several areas where I've seen fiber build out from government grants.

That said, they are EXCEPTIONALLY rare and typically scumbag ISPs pocket the money with no consequences, since nobody who writes these laws sets up consequences for failing to deliver.

Yeah but does Iran have nukes? Checkmate!

Sure, I'll do a simple web search for you.

It was 64%.
The most since 1908
So, the "most people in the USA didn't vote for anything" is incorrect. Most registered voters did (if you're including infants and the deceased, well that changes the math a little bit).

And if you didn't vote, you get what you get. And what you get is chaos and incompetence. Excellent plan, non-voters.

The funniest part is that it's his voters lol

They own half the state

You mean it wasn't able to be saturated?

As slow as 2MBit/s is, relatively speaking, it's still magnitudes better than dial-up.

Can't spell America without ME.