there was that whole thread where people were cheering that entire coal mining communities would be economically devastated - not because the posters hated coal, but because those people are probably republicans/Trump voters
that kind of weird disregard for other citizens and economic classes flies directly in the face of progressive views and it's disheartening.
We weren't celebrating at their downfall, we were face palming at their stupidity that they keep falling themselves into. Let me ask you a question, why should we care about them? A majority of them always vote against policies that would help them.
Clinton was direct and clear, those jobs are never coming back and we need to invest in alternative energies in order to build jobs to replace the old mining ones. They didn't want that, they think they can live a comfortable life mining coal while the rest of the world is moving past it at a breakneck speed. They keep doing this to themselves. No matter how hard we tell them the reality, they don't want to listen.
At what point are people such as yourself going to realize that these people are never, ever, going to change. Because we've been at this for decades. The last 8 years was more than enough to show how much they don't want our help. They do not listen, they do not accept the changing environment nor the reality around them. We offer our hand and they always bite back. So tell me, why should we care? At this point, I rather let them fall into their own devices and help those who actually are willing to accept it.
"You can't help someone if they won't help themselves", as the old saying goes.
