• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s fair, but if you’re pointing to middle of nowhere West Virginia it’s nearly policy irrelevant. I understand that it’s absolutely brutal for y’all right now and has been for a long time but your economy is built on an outdated fuel source, the mining of which is so much easier now that it doesn’t need the population it used to. You’re geographically terrible to build manufacturing.

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      7 months ago

      This is how little people actually understand about West Virginia. Coal is not nearly as dominating of a force as it used to be. It’s all natural gas now, and even that’s going to dry up eventually.

      It’s why now more than ever we need Democrats to focus on it and have strong progressive economics to back it up. You can’t just let a state wither because it’s politically irrelevant, that just leads to it forever being politically irrelevant.

      It’s also worth noting that Democrats have a mandate to do the right thing, whether it’s politically relevant or not.