Socialist Progressives

like with Cruz blocking aid to every state but his (quietly keeping Texas in the Federal clover)

the GOP screams and bellows and hollers about Amtrak--but the money-losing lines are all in their poor, low-infrastrucutre-investment Red States and they'll ROAR if you try and cut the Empire Builder/Zephyr/SW Chief: they want the Pioneer back, the Desert Wind, a new TX-CO line through Amarillo, TX-OK-Chicago, an Atlanta hub, a commuter for Alabama: they'd get it and get the Northeast to pay for it all, and then scream and scream and scream about how Washington should butt out and not ever tax them

they can do this trick because they've carefully walled off their voters, flattering them that it's the Senator and not Washington that's bringing this stuff in, that it just pops out of the ground from nowhere for a deserving people

and they HAVE to do this because their states are the most dependent ones, and admitting it is admitting the failure of the system; so they have to make socialism into a bad word because it's the hand that feeds them