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Eh, it's more of a central Pennsylvania and West Virginia thing than a conservative thing. Those regions are peppered with towns that were propped up by coal mi
by swebs 8y ago
Eh, it's more of a central Pennsylvania and West Virginia thing than a conservative thing. Those regions are peppered with towns that were propped up by coal mining, then had the rug pulled out from under them when the industry changed. It's similar to Detroit and the auto industry, or Pittsburgh and the steel industry. If you could bring everything back and revitalize your town, wouldn't you want to make that choice?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoAbsolutely, and I would actually like to see more of my tax dollars spent to assist struggling people and communities in general. What confuses me is that many of the people calling for the government to help unemployed coal miners are the same people who sneer and spit if you say the government should help unemployed people in general.
- yostrovs 8y agoThey're actually different people in most cases. It's just that you probably lump everyone together that is far from you on the political spectrum. Don't worry, most people do the same as you, and in the process nuance is lost and stupid decisions are made.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoWhat I posted is literally the position of the President of the United States and a good portion of the Republican Congress. Maybe those people don't actually represent their constituents' views (which is a different problem) but they are absolutely a force in modern American politics. What you describe does happen, and I won't pretend that I don't do it too, despite my best efforts. But don't imagine that there aren't powerful legislators working from the position of "coal good, welfare bad".