my-sins-remembered:mysharona1987:baeddel:moxperidot:geekandmisandry:mysharona1987:The saddest, most
my-sins-remembered:mysharona1987:baeddel:moxperidot:geekandmisandry:mysharona1987:The saddest, most haunting thing about that response.It is 100% accurate.You really just can’t save people from themselves.they might vote different if a party besides the GOP campaigned there but lets all laugh at the working poor how silly of them to be taken advantage of (:The same people who voted for trump voted for obama 4 years prior. Its really not an easy story like that. White rural working class (who make up the vast majority of miners, and presumably are the ones voting trump!) are concerned abt both healthcare and unemployment and will support things that they perceive as being in their interests. Its not a contradiction for them: they probably regretted much about the previously admimistration they helped elect, too. The fact that pursuing both options ‘within the system’ leads to a dead end is an opportunity for struggle. It should not be perceived as ‘were unable to save them from their stupidity’ nor as a failure of the bourgeois democratic party.Why does a coal miner worried about his healthcare vote for a man who vows to take it away? A real question. Bear in mind, most studies since the election have shown it was basically his views on immigration and Muslims and women that got Trump elected. Not the economics or coal mining industry. Trump said he wouldn’t touch Medicare or Medicaid and that he would replace Obamacare with something “better”. That was enough, I guess, to allow those voters to focus on their other, less rational, fears. The question I have is why anyone ever believed him and why 30% of the country continues to believe him.Because 30% of America are idiots? -- source link