Coal Country Trump Voters Scared that Obamacare will be Taken Away

[MineralMan]

71. Nobody wants that. We did a poor job of helping them

understand the actual choices they had. Why? Because we hate coal. It pollutes. It's awful. Coal-mining, too is a horrible thing, and miners are dying because regulation and safety was ignored for so long.

We ignore coal mining country because we don't think burning coal is a good idea. So, we don't campaign there. We'd rather not deal with it. But, voters in coal country still have to survive, and for many of them, that means coal mining, in one way or another. Yes, we know that the coal mining industry has to go away. But, we deal with that by simply ignoring the people in areas where coal mining takes place during our election campaigns.

Yes, the coal mining area votes did a stupid thing by voting for Trump. But Democrats also did a stupid thing by not educating those same people about what we're doing to help them deal with the past and prepare for a coal-free future. We don't like coal, so we ignore those who depend on it for their lives.

We're stupid, too.