I'm watching the movie Dark Waters. Parkersburg WVA. Republican stronghold

[tulipsandroses]

If you have a chance to watch this awesome movie. Please do. The movie is about Dupont's 20 year cover up about how dangerous PFOA is. The details are extremely disturbing. The movie starts with what was happening in Parkersburg WVA.

My post is not about what Dupont did. Its about how people that live in republican strongholds, will continue to vote against their own interests. Dupont has given to Dems and Republicans. So I don't want to make it seem that just by accepting a corporate donation, something is wrong. Its the support to continue to cause harm that really boggles my mind. The support that these communities continue to give politicians that will not fight for their safety and security.

Dow, gave a million dollars to trump to get what they wanted.

How Dow Chemical Influenced the EPA to Ignore the Scientific Evidence on Chlorpyrifos

Published Oct 11, 2017
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to fund President Trump's inaugural activities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, was a key advisor to the Trump Administration, heading up the president’s since-disbanded American Manufacturing Council. In fact, when Trump signed a February executive order creating federal agency task forces in charge of choosing regulations to roll back, Liveris was standing behind the president.
][link:https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-dow-chemical-influenced-epa-ignore-scientific-evidence-chlorpyrifos|

I keep hearing questions about how to reach trump folks. I don't buy the economic anxiety argument. I believe if you still support trump, you are a bigot yourself. The mind boggling thing for me, communities like Parkersburg that will reject Democratic ideas that would keep them safe, and continue to support the politicians that encourage the polluters to continue to cause harm. How do you reach people that continue to cut off their own noses to spite other people's faces? The people they are voting for, don't give a blip about them. But, they will continue to vote that way.

[rwsanders]

1. Lee Atwater's conversation with Nixon about code words

for racism come to mind as well as Johnson's quote about giving whites someone to look down on.
Classic colonialism.
Cause is easy to see but I don't know if a cure exists.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R