Don’t blame Kentuckians. I don’t even know anyone who wanted him back. Must a been a lot of bring home the bacon types out voting using the democommie technique of vote early and vote often. Even the dems had Ditch Mitch on their bumpers.
Coal does not taste good and has a very gritty texture. When your lights go out and you are freezing to death in the dark, don’t think badly of Kentuckians, we warned folks what was coming over 30 years ago. Maybe now as those electric bills climb and the black and brown outs start people will realize what we meant when we told them, if they can do it to us, they can do it to you. Invest in firewood and longjohns.
I'm from the Appalachian MD/WV/PA tri-state. I know of coal country - I grew up in it. I've walked the tracks with coal dust on my feet. There are just too many people who you can hit over the head with a shovel and they still won't see the light coming towards them. Back in the day, we had a thriving rail and coal industry. PPG. Celanese Fibers. Kelly-Springfield. All gone. People are just now beginning to wake up, but too few, too late for places like these, it seems. People are clinging by a thread - to their homes, their families, their sanity. Obama told one of the few truths of his life when he said he was going to shut down the coal industry and energy costs would soar. These folks still voted him in because Daddy and Grandaddy were old-school Democrats, but they
didn't listen to the messenger. Now whatever economies there were in those parts are suffering due to that sort of familial political loyalty - nobody saw the light barreling down on them. It wasn't the rhetorical gravy train they naturally assumed it would be. Even the unions got bought, sold, and kicked down the hollow. Just like voting McConnell back in - it isn't the same us vs. them paradigm anymore. There is no real red vs. blue, black vs. white, or however you want to view the chessboard. McConnell is no more a conservative than Harry Reid is. They're all corporate political insiders with their own best interests at the fore. They're all drunk on their own power and self-importance, and all the so-called bickering you hear about going on in Washington is self-serving manipulation to get the upper hand on each other. We're just fodder. Every day, I hear a thousand voices offer a thousand solutions - some noble, others not so much - as to how to solve our problems. I've convinced the whole thing will have to come crashing down into a cloud of dust before it can be rebuilt as the Founders intended, and real opportunity rises from the dirt.
That's my opinion. You're entitled to yours.