[WarOnPrivacy]

> Universal broadband access is a governmental program supported by Democrats to give Internet access to Republicans.

This isn't a bad observation.

To speak plainly here: It taps at the notion that poor rural Rs ought to realize that the national R party likes them poor and angry. It's not untrue but it's totally tone deaf to the reality that the national D party hasn't given a meaningful crap about rural poverty in my lifetime. (source:recovering conservative)

> Hard-nosed politics would suggest the program should not have a bright future.

Our bazillionth lesson that hard nosed politics benefit a small group at the expense of most everyone else. Much work+money goes into making sure the lesson isn't learned.

> States can deal with this problem, or not, as they choose.

This runs up against a bright line. It runs between states that are openly, gleefully hostile toward helping vulnerable people - and the states that sometimes help when they aren't busy being inept/apathetic/confused/corrupt.