Coal Country Appears to Reconsider It's Political Futures

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11. Yes!

Hillary told them the truth. Trump and right-wing, Fox fabulists told them a fairytale. But lost/pinched pensions and reduced healthcare access are a clear warning siren, enough to wake up even the deep sleeper, particularly if you or your loved ones are suffering the physical agony of Black Lung or the myriad of mining-related ailments. Trump couldn't explain how he would bring back King Coal because he never had a plan. About anything. Those speeches were tailored made for each audience to seduce, persuade, bamboozle. The man was a fraud on the campaign trail and he's a fraud now.

My older son recently drove cross country, a job-related thing. But he said the only thing he could get on the car radio was right-wing trash talk and super-max Christian stations. A good portion of our fellow Americans are being fed propaganda on a daily basis. That makes your perspective ripe for carnival barker techniques, glib, empty promises and a bucket of wooden nickels.

I blame the Trumpster, Republican enablers, the hypocritical, venal Evangelical leadership and the plutocrats they rode in on, more than the struggling working class. The latter can be turned around slowly but surely. The former deserve political annihilation.