Many were intentionally misled or misinformed. And beyond that, there are people on the left who will be suffering in the same way and for the same reasons.
I understand the temptation for this attitude, but it’s ultimately harmful and destructive.
I remember watching a news piece about Obama pouring job retraining money into WV for the miners, and they refused to use it because they thought coal would come back. They voted against HEC because she didn’t sugarcoat that coal was dead and never coming back.
Sure, but I think the takeaway here is that these people are victims of the right wing disinformation sphere and of a public education system that failed to properly prepare them for critical reading of media and info sources.
Know what? Lots of them didn’t listen in school. And virtually all were drawn into MAGA via racism and fake religious posturing. There’s a price to being gullible. They should have their own country with no ethical, intelligent people and see how they fare. MAGA taught them to hate smart people.
And b/c most of them are arrogant fucks who don’t believe anything beyond their tiny spheres of experience could be real, they allowed themselves to be convinced that all science- and fact-based professionals are lying quacks.
Visit West Virginia. There are lots of good people here. This place has been fucked six ways from Sunday for decades by anyone with power. Sure, the huckster isn’t going to fix it, but the feeling of being left behind is real, because this place HAS been left behind.
They haven't been left behind, technology happened and coal sucks. They refuse to grow and deserve the bullshit they get next. Fuck WV, the only thing the know how to do now is pop pills
Coal does suck. Technology didn’t just happen, although some A+ passive voice nonsense. Technology development is directed by gov’t and private money, which came nowhere near Appalachia. This place and its people got fucked by coal companies, and then by outsourcing of industry, then by opioids.
The industrial backbone of the country came from this region in so many ways, and there was zero plan for what happened when the changing world moved on. I’m not saying we should revert back, that’s obviously dumb. And not going to happen. Now came from somewhere, might be worth thinking about where
More actual people voted for Trump in: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. Those all garbage Nazi places too?
It’s what it sounds like. And it’s as good as it sounds. You can buy em in gas stations all over the state. Started as a miner lunch for Italian immigrants I think?
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I understand the temptation for this attitude, but it’s ultimately harmful and destructive.
You sound like an agent provocateur