Posted on 07/18/2016 6:16:46 PM PDT by Mariner
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) -- Mike Kirk leans across the counter of the pawnshop where he works for $11 an hour. It's less than half what he made in the mines, but the best he can do these days.
He and two customers ponder what this city might look like in 10 years if nothing changes. Many of the storefronts on the narrow downtown streets are empty. Some of the buildings burned. Their blackened shells, "condemned" signs taped to the doors, stand as a symbol of how far they've fallen.
In 10 years? A ghost town, one customer offers. The other wonders if it might simply cease to exist.
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EDITOR'S NOTE — This story is part of Divided America, AP's ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society.
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And it scares the hell out of them.
Because the people that built this country intend to take it back.
The Rust Belt is the epicenter for these types of stories - its where Trump will win this election.
Obama - YES HE DID!!!
Well put.
Trump is our last shot. Hillary wants to bring in a million Muslims.
We’ve suffered under Obama. God spare our nation a just judgment. Grant us mercy!
It is time for political correctness and pandering to all these leftist special interest groups to come to an end. Muslims, Illegal Immigrants, black lives mater and especially all these “LGBTQ” crap(Q added recently) need to go back to where they belong or just shut up.
Most definitely!!!!! (See my tagline)
As was once said “I asked for mercy but was given justice’.
There is an interesting dynamic to this election and one that makes it hard to predict with any accuracy. There are a sizable number of people who either don’t vote or vote for democrats that are excited about Trump.
We will find out what that means in November and I am hoping for the best.
True, if the saw mills and mining and the manufacturing jobs come back people will be so busy working they will not be able to run around and cause trouble which these slime bag socialists thrive on.
The elites don’t like conservatism. It makes it too hard to amass problems with a strong middle class, spreading the wealth aound widely amongst themselves through hard work. The middle class is too hard to control given that they must cling to conservative principles that make them difficult to manipulate and traditionally possess too much much money to contribute to candidates collectively.
Article pretty much nails it. I suspect that most of the truly zealous Trumpettes know what an unconservative loudmouth he is at heart. But with both the Pauls out of action for good and Gary I-don’t-have-a-Johnson as the Libertarian candidate, the Constitution Party still relegated to mere protest votes and the prospect of Hillary Clinton as POTUS...seriously, what else IS there?
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