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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Working class white america doesnt care about coal mining anymore than the Kippers that voted for Brexit care about the fishing industry but its symbolic of an age they want to go back to and shysty right wing scum bags can and will harness that anger every chance they get
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I will say that in this particular area they
definitely care about coal. WV is huge with coal, tons of people who live in the Pittsburgh region and south have family in WV, many of who worked in coal, and many of those small WV towns have been dying slowly for decades as coal has died off. But the only way coal stays around is if you completely take away worker protections and go back to the days when mining was even more dangerous than it is now (which is still pretty dangerous). Coal just isn't as profitable as it once was, because there are so many other energy options. Coal is hard to get, it's dirty, it's dangerous. But all these people see are regulation killing coal, and Trump swears he'll bring it back.
That he says awful things about people, that he's a liar, that he's crass and rude, racist and sexist--they can overlook all of that stuff, as long as they have their guns and he brings back coal. It doesn't matter if other people suffer, as long as it makes life better for them.