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jmowreader

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16. Left-wingers work to make the extractive industries superfluous

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 05:00 PM

Sep 2013

Say you mine coal. Right-wingers tend to be, by and large, in favor of using coal and oil to generate power. (Try running trains full of the shit through their neighborhoods, tho, and you get a different opinion...) Left-wingers like things such as solar, wind, geothermal, wave energy and other things that obviate the need for extractive energy. So...if you were a coal mining executive, and you had the choice of supporting the philosophy that likes what you do or the philosophy that seeks to put you in a different line of work, you'd follow your wallet.

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Ever noticed that that people working in extractive industries tend to be right-wing? [View all] YoungDemCA Sep 2013 OP

They think... yesphan Sep 2013 #1

It's about resisting change and losing Skidmore Sep 2013 #10

I think it's the "rape and pillage" mentality. They're real "takers". SharonAnn Sep 2013 #13

That depends. Keep in mind a good number of those workers are union as well. phleshdef Sep 2013 #2

A lot of unionized workers, true YoungDemCA Sep 2013 #3

Yea, owners and managers for sure... phleshdef Sep 2013 #8

Could be education also. The higher education, more white collar jobs are more leftwing? uppityperson Sep 2013 #4

Higher education is correlated with liberalism YoungDemCA Sep 2013 #6

Obvious. Money. TheDeputy Sep 2013 #5

Extractive=dominion over the Earth=fundies=right wing n/t Duer 157099 Sep 2013 #7

Yep. They think gawd left it in the ground for them to use so they are entitled to it. Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #12

Also the military complex EC Sep 2013 #9

do they tend to lean right on social issues also ? JI7 Sep 2013 #11

The ownership, management and professionals, like engineers and such are. Cleita Sep 2013 #14

Dentists too... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #15

Left-wingers work to make the extractive industries superfluous jmowreader Sep 2013 #16