Absolutely right!Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:24 pm I’m going to go all classist here. Manchin comes from what could be an amazing place if not for all the bosses trying to kill the workers and citizens of West Virginia. He’s white trash compared to most of the other Senators and he knows it.
Coal is King in WV. Coal has been killing his people for hundreds of years but all the people I’ve met in the coal belt think they’re lucky to have jobs at all and coal is cool. Because that’s what they’ve been told for generations, even as their fathers lay dying of black lung. Manchin did nothing to protect the state from table top mining, strip mining, fracking in any of his positions of power. He and the other families who form the power networks in the state are just like Manchin… protect each other at all costs, laws don’t apply to us, do whatever it takes. Manchin’s daughter flaked her way out of college and into a degree anyway, thanks to the network.
He’s paying us back in that white trash way he do. He truly doesn’t care.
I have one family in my overall family that were coal miners. Even though her father died young of black lung disease, she's as gung ho on coal as you can get. Her father mined in PA, not WV, but it doesn't matter. That's the mindset.