Politico has a piece showing how the Trump base in coal country are lazy moochers (Social security office busiest building in town) who refuse to retrain and take jobs that are available as machinists, welders, etc...
They also really don't like non-white people.
They also intend to vote for Trump no matter what he does (or doesn't do).
https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...rump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800
the "lazy moochers" comment is a distorted take on the article imo.
while the "jobs available for welders and machinists" thing always seems to come up in these discussions about areas that have been abandoned by the industries that once supported them, let's not kid ourselves that there are near enough high paying welders and machinists jobs there to solve the problem, or that no one is willing to learn new skills in these areas.
the point i take from the article, and it's easily missed imo, isn't that people are just too stupid to see that Trump isn't who he purports to be, and they are just blind fools.
but rather that these seeming backwards folks to some, at least grasp the reality that for needed change to ever occur, the "FIRST STEP" is to at least get that need at or near the top of the public debate hierarchy, and get the media and politicians at least talking about it and acknowledging it's presence.
while Bernie initiated that movement, it was Trump they heard pushing the message they wanted pushed, and any loyalty on their part to Trump isn't based in what he does, but just the fact that finally someone was at least giving lip service to, and at least initiating a debate they were desperate for the country and the media to at least put out there. ("THE FIRST STEP").
any loyalty is to his merely at least shining a light on the problem and initiating that debate.
any failure to solve the problem, just means it rolls over to the next election.
look for the most interesting primaries ever coming up.
both parties now represent the moneyed interests. ("hostile takeover". they were flat out bought out for good money.. this isn't about ideology, don't take it personal, it's just business).
the voting citizenry though weren't bought out by the moneyed interests, but rather sold out by them.
the coming primaries, on both sides, will be about the candidates supporting the parties' and their moneyed owners' interests, vs those supporting the voters' interests.
Comcast and AT&T, (who literally own the msm), did all they could to bury Bernie last time. (they are moneyed interests, and knew they had HC in their pockets).
will be interesting to see how they, (the msm), treat the candidates representing the voters' interests vs those representing the parties' interests.
will be interesting to see just how partisan they get next time out.
not Dems vs GOP partisan. but candidate representing party vs candidate representing voter partisan.