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In reply to the discussion: Coal Miners Crushed As White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs [View all]DFW
(60,382 posts)At some point, a majority of them will be forced to admit they've been lied to by McConnell, Caputo and their local Republicans.
You know what they will do then? They will vote Republican again. Democrats will tell them their jobs are gone but they will do what they can to retrain them and give them and their children a life, but it won't happen tomorrow. Republicans will tell them their jobs will be back tomorrow, lie through their teeth, and these people will vote Republican again and again and again.
These people are angry and the media they follow plays to anger. Fox Noise plays to anger. National Hate Radio plays to Anger. Rachel Maddow does not. Hillary Clinton does not. The New York Times does not. Until their anger dissipates into sullen despair, they will listen to their hatemasters and vote Republican. Anything else requires listening to a little reason, and until the anger that drowns reason out is gone (or at best re-channeled), we don't have much of a chance. Raúl Labrador may be stupid enough to tell his constituents that no one ever died from a lack of access to health care, but Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have been around long enough not to make a mistake THAT stupid.