re: #118 HappyWarrior

And I’m sorry but coal miners need to get over their hostility towards environmentalists too.

And what’s the likelihood of THAT happening? (Guess: about the same as all those coal jobs “coming back”?) Resentment about losing one’s job/livelihood/industry to abstract factors like technological advances or changes in the global energy markets has one major disadvantage (for politicians, anyway). It’s harder to exploit for political gain than if you have a convenient hate-object to focus on. And the “liberal environmentalist” - invariably painted as some arrogant, affluent DFH asshole who’s Not From Around Here motivated mainly by anti-American animus and riding around in a Prius solely to mock and sneer at Just-Plain-Folks - is a useful strawman. Unlike coal, blame-shifting is a perennial growth industry.