Many of these areas are also chronically under-educated, and we don't do anything to prevent politicians from lying to them. If all you see and hear tells you

Many of these areas are also chronically under-educated, and we don't do anything to prevent politicians from lying to them. If all you see and hear tells you "clean coal" is a real thing and you've also been convinced that without the power plants you have no future, it's easy to keep going to work and keep electing the same garbage politicians into office. We owe them a better education system (as frankly we owe the whole country), and we owe them a political landscape where liars are not just taken to task by their opponent but removed from the electoral process.