I don't know Kentucky politics. I know the governor and the legislature don't have to be in lock step.

I also know that states have to balance their budgets. The Feds cover most of the Medicaid bill but not all of it. If a million people get a $2 jar of tylenol under Medicaid and Kentucky pays 10% of it, they're still out $200k. I mean, yay tylenol but it's not a wash.

You got into a thing because you were expressing a rural South viewpoint of liberal stereotypes as opposed to a cosmopolitan North viewpoint of liberal stereotypes. They're all stereotypes, of course. Cuck, by the way, doesn't mean what you (or they) think it means. It derives from "cuckservative" which is just a more offensive way of saying "Republican In Name Only" with a little added emasculation thrown in. A cuck has to have lost something - a homosexual liberal cannot be a "cuck" because he never had any masculinity to be cuckolded. At least, that was the thinking before rednecks started using it as a politically-charged version of "douchebag."

The GOP playbook, for exactly 50 years, has been to pit poor white people against poor anybody else people. The "hate the fuck out of food stamps" angle is because of our Protestant work ethic: hard work is holy and handouts are for heathens. If you take charity it's a sign that you are impure. Here's the cognitive dissonance: 'boomer rednecks grew up with a reasonable assumption that if you work hard you'll get ahead but that's no longer true. So if you're working hard and not getting ahead it must be because of those Mexicans that are taking everyone's jobs.

Globalization did fuck rural America pretty hard. So did NAFTA. There's legitimate beef. But the Democrats don't have a solution and shrug and whistle while the Republicans don't have a solution but they're happy to lie about it. Build the wall.

We're a long goddamn way from the Depression. However, the Depression was certainly a driving force for socialism. That's one of the reasons FDR basically grabbed Huey Long's platform and TVA'd his way through it. Also keep in mind: the Depression was blamed (rightly) on Hoover, who was a Republican... and it landed squarely in a Democrat's lap.