Democratic WV state senate candidate gets beaten up and nearly killed

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I hope if Hillary wins we can make West Virginia our new nuclear waste disposal area. It's certainly more deserving than poor Yucca Mountain. We can rename it Waste Virginia.

If the Democrats are serious about claiming any degree of moral superiority over the Republicans at all, this cannot be the party's attitude towards any part of the country, regardless of how much reason there is to dislike the people living there. The American left cannot turn into Margaret Thatcher deliberately pursuing policies that will hurt unsympathetic demographics and justifying it with 'they are not our people'. It is neither morally justifiable nor, in the final analysis, politically efficacious.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I hope if Hillary wins we can make West Virginia our new nuclear waste disposal area. It's certainly more deserving than poor Yucca Mountain. We can rename it Waste Virginia.

If the Democrats are serious about claiming any degree of moral superiority over the Republicans at all, this cannot be the party's attitude towards any part of the country, regardless of how much reason there is to dislike the people living there. The American left cannot turn into Margaret Thatcher deliberately pursuing policies that will hurt unsympathetic demographics and justifying it with 'they are not our people'. It is neither morally justifiable nor, in the final analysis, politically efficacious.

Well, they (WV) hates Hillary but her "Marshall Plan" for WV is their only real hope.  They love Trump but there's nothing he can do to stop Appalachian natural gas from burying Appalachian coal.  It's a pickle. 

I mean, obviously they're reflexively voting in profoundly self-destructive ways, but that's no excuse to deliberately make things worse for them like IceSpear is suggesting. (I know there's a distinct possibility that he's not serious, but given his general opinion of poor whites, Poe's law is very much in effect.)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

From a purely technocratic view,

Okay.