This is a critical moment: the emergence of a labor struggle that’s actually earnestly grassroots, not engineered by union or party officials for political ends. In fact, establishment “allies” won’t back them. Their union bosses abandoned them, Democrat politicians all have tried to get them to compromise. They are going it alone.
They really, really need our material support. We all need them to win.
It seems to me one of the big differences is that one party is telling hard truths (“coal energy is all but dead and automation is taking many of the few remaining jobs in the industry, maybe you should consider new job training”) and the other is making unrealistic promises (“coal is the future, vote for us and we’ll bring all those mining jobs back!”).
So it’s disappointing but not surprising that so many people in West Virginia are responding to the latter message instead of the former.
The parties seem to take turns on who will deliver which message. Unfortunately for both and for residents of WV job training doesn’t do much good when there’s no jobs to be had.
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