re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I grew up in Gary, Indiana, back when there was a lot less “economic anxiety” among the working-class whites, but they were still enormous bigots and racists.

The economic decline just brought it out a lot more into the open and gave people like Trump a scapegoat to point at for them.

Exactly and tbh Hillary was offering a realistic plan. The mines closed in Mom’s parents hometown years ago. We shouldn’t neglect people left behind by changing economics but we shouldn’t make empty promises or return to things proven to be bad for the environment and our health.