re: #115 HappyWarrior

Exactly. They’re convinced Obama has ruined our country and we’re in decline but their daily life hasn’t gotten worse under him. I was listening to NPR yesterday and hearing a bunch of Trump supporters talk about how they want their freedoms back. I wish someone would ask them what that means and if they say something like how gay marriage is legal now, explain nicely that same sex marriage being legal isn’t a loss of freedom for them and that they still have their guns.

Now some of it lies in the fact that although the economic recovery has occurred in the cities and populated areas, a lot of rural areas are nearly as bad off as they were in 2008

And as in West Virginia, where coal mining is in decline due to a number of factors, blame is laid at Obama’s doorstep for “over-regulation”. Even after an under-regulated coal company produces a toxic spill that poisons drinking water for 300,000 residents…