Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

[publicunofficial]

You can't teach old dogs new tricks.

This is what happens when you pander to the poorly educated with blatant lies. These people objectively do not know what's best for them.

I bet both of you constantly wonder why the Democratic Party is routinely viewed as just as bad as the Republicans by most Americans.

[publicunofficial]

I like to believe that people are smart enough to know that believe that coal isn't coming back, but living in a world of alternative facts can make people desperate for jobs go for what would seem to be salvation when it is just false hope. _{Notice that I avoided demeaning coal miners, Ice Spear}

You're not telling me anything I don't know. We all deal with wishful thinking and false hope in our lives. That doesn't give you an excuse to permanently live in a fictional reality though, much less blame blacks/browns/gays/women/Muslims for all your problems.

And I don't see how it's "demeaning" to say that someone doesn't know their own best interests when stories like this prove it.

Government works best when you have nothing but complete and utter contempt for the people you're supposed to be helping.

[publicunofficial]

I have empathy for their situation. Not the deplorable way they respond to it.

Why would it matter anyway? These people supposedly hate special snowflakes and easily triggered politically correct liberals. Can dish it out but can't take it? I'm just "telling it like it is", the very quality they love about Trump.

I agree with you. I’m tired of the pussy footing and skating around that we do when it comes to uneducated white people because we can’t hurt their feelings. They have no problem getting in the gutter and expressing their disgust with affirmative action, Hispanic immigration, same-sex marriage, or any other policy that don’t like but they can’t handle the truth about an industry that is basically a ing death sentence. Stop trying to pander to ignorant people and tell them the truth.

The more I read posts from liberals like this the more I think leaving the Democratic Party was a good choice.

[publicunofficial]

I have empathy for their situation. Not the deplorable way they respond to it.

Why would it matter anyway? These people supposedly hate special snowflakes and easily triggered politically correct liberals. Can dish it out but can't take it? I'm just "telling it like it is", the very quality they love about Trump.

I agree with you. I’m tired of the pussy footing and skating around that we do when it comes to uneducated white people because we can’t hurt their feelings. They have no problem getting in the gutter and expressing their disgust with affirmative action, Hispanic immigration, same-sex marriage, or any other policy that don’t like but they can’t handle the truth about an industry that is basically a ing death sentence. Stop trying to pander to ignorant people and tell them the truth.

The more I read posts from liberals like this the more I think leaving the Democratic Party was a good choice.

True enough.  

What truths should the inner-city poor be told?  That their poverty is, largely, the decision of many young single females to bear children outside of marriage, by a male who is not likely to be prepared to act as a husband, father, and family provider (roles that provide family stability)?  That the negative conditions in impoverished urban communities are, in no small measure, made worse (if not caused) by the young male residents' criminal behavior within that community.  Why is it OK to lecture the unemployed coal-miners about their "bigotry", but OK to allow the anti-white sentiments routinely expressed in inner-city communities to go unchallenged?  Why are the inner-city poor that have no high school education, no training (often despite opportunities for such training), but who vote Democratic with regularity viewed by folks like RFK1968 as "low information voters"?

Aaand this is why I'm not a Republican, either.

Whenever we find a group of people who the government and our society has completely failed them, for generations, and now uplifting them from that situation is extremely difficult, the knee-jerk reaction is "Oh they're just lazy.", "Oh, they don't want our help.", "They need to address their own problems as a community first before we can help".

It's a sneering, condescending attitude that enrages me when I see it in either party.

[publicunofficial]

Woke Thatcherism is an extraordinarily obnoxious ideology.

Social Darwinism is bad unless we're talking about people that vote 70% Republican.

[publicunofficial]

Liberals: haha the electorate am i right? what a bunch of losers. only hacks try and appeal to the elctorate. it's lucky in the future we are majority minority, because all minorities will always vote for us lol

Liberals: why do we lose all the time?

I'm not the one asking the latter question though. I know why liberals lose: because they don't pander to and stoke the resentments of the worst and most deplorable aspects of the American public.

"Winning elections is beneath us"