Democrats need to get the working class in places like West Virginia back

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/10/behind-slogans-and-rhetoric-theres-big.html

West Virginia's congressional delegation, made up of individuals who are tightly connected to corporate interests, including the energy business, has no interest in helping the working poor in their state. None. Yet they keep getting elected, mainly on social issues and on the political rhetoric of right wing liars.

Job loss for rural communities in West Virginia is a regular occurrence. Coal mines run out of coal and shut down, and now, as cheaper, cleaner alternatives are being developed, even productive facilities are being shut down for lack of markets. Democrats have proposed some solutions which will create jobs in other fields, bringing in and growing different industries which would add jobs and improve the local economy. The infrastructure bill and "Build Back Better" both carried immense potential to create jobs in the state. But its politicians followed a party line and voted no.

Senator Bernie Sanders, who won the Democratic primary in West Virginia in 2016, went back with MSNBC's Chris Hayes for a town hall in Welch, in the far southern part of the state, deep in the mountains, to address the opioid crisis, prescription drug addiction and the health care issues plaguing the rural areas. It was a rare opportunity for West Virginians to be heard, and they were, by Democrats. Once Trump was gone, what the Biden administration offered to West Virginia was a hand up, and they've benefitted tremendously from the infrastructure bill. Williamson and Mingo County are not the only place that will have an operational hospital due to Biden administration assistance. Welch, where Sanders and Hayes held their town hall, also got assistance to keep their medical facility open, as did several other rural health operations across the state

[LuvLoogie]

1. Hillary had a plan for retraining workers in coal country

They chose someone different.

The train pulled up to the station, but they didn't like that a black man was driving and about to hand the levers to a woman.

I'm tired of seeking to appease folks who have placed a target on the backs of people I care about.

I don't care. Do you?

[Scrivener7]

3. HUNDREDS of companies were queued up to provide jobs. That state would have been

totally revitalized by now.

But it was more important to them to display their hate for brown people. Because, you know, like 5% of the state is non-white. It's an INVASION!!!

I am totally with you on this.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. To reach the heart of the matter

we need to convince people that it’s more important to vote in their self-interest than to vote for hurting those people they don’t like. Self-interest or spite…hmmm…you’d think self-interest would win, but a great deal of brainwashing has been done already.

[lees1975]

4. Yes, and that's really the heart of the issue...

People don't know what they've missed out on or lost until they feel it. I know, from family members who live there, that they really felt it when the hospital in their county closed, leaving the closest ER 40 miles away. A local medical provider bought the hospital to re-open it and got $2 million from the Biden administration, mainly through a Bernie Sanders initiative, though Manchin got a local newspaper mention as well. Will that cause some people to wake up? Yeah, though the brain washing is pretty ingrained. But, abortion numbers in those impoverished mountain counties are pretty high as are the number of people who aren't even registered to vote.

[Aristus]

11. Yeah, try to get that to percolate down into the meth-addled similacrum of a brain

we're dealing with. I'm not optimistic.

[vercetti2021]

5. Who knows if that's even remotely possible

WV has been brainwashed by any Democrat is evil, satanic and baby eaters and no matter if the con will rob them blind or take away their job or rights. It's better than ever electing a Democrat. Ohio fell into that trap, Wisconsin sadly is falling that way too.

Getting these states back will take a major step into deprogramming all the propaganda

[doc03]

6. I don't know how you get them back but if I give my opinion on how

they were lost I get an alert.

[Yoyoyo77]

7. In those hill's there are just to many Fundies.

Especially too many charismatics who believe whatever their prophets say. I remember when I was a child (before the family moved to the DC metro for work) seeing the prophetic camp revivals every weekend. Back then they just worried about, teaching evolution, prayer in schools, keeping their segregated academies and avoiding the sinful secular world. Now they are talking holy war.

[brush]

8. Let's cut to the chase. The majority of white men...

are trumpers and have been since the '60s when the dixiecrats left the Dem party and went over to the republicans.

The majority are anti-women and anti-POC and that's not likely to change anytime soon, even though being republican is against the economic interests of the middle and working class white men.

And let's face it, racism and sexism runs strong with them.

[Skittles]

10. I think they should concentrate on people who don't vote

forget these die-hard repukes who consistently vote against their own self-interests

[lees1975]

13. There are plenty of those.

West Virginia has a very low rate of registered voters to total population. Lots of cynicism there. And there are many places in the rural areas and small towns of the state where businesses continue to close and move out, and the jobs leave, and nothing changes.

[czarjak]

12. Democrats are associated with being the party of black people. Period. And the die-hards aint budgin