They’re saying that they have crumbling infrastructure because they keep voting for people who want them to have a crumbling infrastructure, and that’s tragic. But see, the republicans, who support having a crumbling infrastructure with policies that refuse to fund these things, have been able to successfully convince people that democrats who want to fix these things are bad people who are ridiculing them for having problems.

We're having a semantic misunderstanding regarding the word "republican." In an effort to be more clear, I'll avoid that word. I agree with you and the commenter up to a certain point. Where we differ is that I don't conflate the citizens who are tricked into voting that way by people who are bought and paid for by corporate lobbying with the people doing the tricking or paying for it to be done. The citizens are effectively being ignored by the politicians they vote in and desperately cling to anyone who promises them change and gives them answers to their problems. It's unfortunate all around, but blaming them isn't helpful in this situation as they don't see themselves as the problem. It doesn't give them the correct place to focus their energy and just feeds your own ego to piss them off.

you just assume you’ve been wronged by people

I haven't been "wronged" and I have no personal stake in this. I'm not on the democrat or republican "team." I don't live in a rural area. It's annoying when a reply so thoroughly misses the entire point of my comment and unironically does the exact thing I made the comment about. I literally thought you were trolling. : /