superheroes:apparentlyeverything:polyscinerd:moxperidot:geekandmisandry:mysharona1987:The saddest, m
superheroes:apparentlyeverything:polyscinerd:moxperidot:geekandmisandry:mysharona1987:The saddest, most haunting thing about that response.It is 100% accurate.You really just can’t save people from themselves.they might vote different if a party besides the GOP campaigned there but lets all laugh at the working poor how silly of them to be taken advantage of (:West Virginia had a Democratic legislature until 2014, elected a Democratic Governor in 2016, and has a Democratic Senator on the ballot for reelection in 2018, what the fuck are you on about no one else campaigning there?the left has convinced itself that white working class voters have been overlooked and neglected by the Democrats, and no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to change that The New York Times’ The Daily podcast did an episode on coal miners when Trump undid Obama’s coal regulations. Michael Barbaro, the host, interviewed a coal miner from Kentucky, who extolled the many virtues of the coal industry as he told the story of how coal mining enabled him to support his family.There is one part of this episode that’s gotten attention because Michael Barbaro, when asked if he’s ever visited a coal mine personally, starts getting emotional when he realizes that no, he never has. But it was striking to me for a different reason. It was actually the last episode of The Daily I listened to before I quit, and the reason I was so turned off was what happened next.As the coal miner insisted with all of his heart that coal could be mined safely and the perfectly clean coal is the future of the industry, Barbaro asked the miner if he’d ever suffered any health consequences throughout his career. The miner then revealed he was currently suffering from stage four black lung. And Barbaro left it there. He didn’t press the miner on it, like I wished he would. He just let it go.These voters do not live in reality; they exist in a world of their own making and only accept the facts reinforce the delusions they’ve wrapped themselves up in. And for some reason, it seems that many reporters are more concerned with not shattering people’s delusions than they are with making sure that people are basing their decisions on actual, solid facts.I think this episode illustrated two sides of the problem we have: voters who have become disconnected with reality, and media that enables rather than educates them. -- source link