And the sad thing is that anybody with a shred of intelligence or interest in context would have known exactly what she was actually saying.
Yes, she clearly showed her contempt for working class communities. They knew exactly what she was saying. And I say that as someone who voted for her in both the primary and the general elections.
LOL no.
In context, she followed her statement that she'd be putting coal companies out of business as a result of moving toward renewable energy sources by saying
she wanted to create new economic opportunities for current coal workers, possibly spurred by clean energy development.
And if you don't believe me, here are her full remarks, w/ the most relevant parts in bold:
"Look, we have serious economic problems in many parts of our country. And Roland is absolutely right. Instead of dividing people the way Donald Trump does, let's reunite around policies that will bring jobs & opportunities to all these underserved poor communities.
So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners & coal companies out of business, right? And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights & power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal & all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on. So whether it's coal country or Indian country or poor urban areas, there is a lot of poverty in America. We have gone backwards. We were moving in the right direction. In the '90s, more people were lifted out of poverty than any time in recent history. Because of the terrible economic policies of the Bush administration, President Obama was left with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, & people fell back into poverty because they lost jobs, they lost homes, they lost opportunities, & hope. So I am passionate about this, which is why I have put forward specific plans about how we incentivize more jobs, more investment in poor communities, & put people to work."
