#The man tainting his lungs is a comrade even if he voted differently from me

[cal-is-a-cuddlefish]

#yeah hi i live in WEST VIRGINIA#ask me what its like living in a poor deeply red state like WEST VIRGINIA#our senators don't care about us. our governor doesn't care about us.#they threaten the coal miners with losing their jobs and their benefits if they even THINK about voting for clean energy#no negotiating no trying to find them new jobs nothing just#ope you want wind farms well bill if you want wind farms how will you feed your family#makes it very very hard to get progressive shit done here when they've fearmongered everyone into a corner#because guess what#people need to eat and keep their houses#shocking i know

Not to mention at Every Single Turn they defund our schools. The free lunch program is paid by donations and put together by volunteers. They fund charter schools here and continue stripping money from public school. The public schools suck because of it. Parents are regularly ARRESTED for trying to get their kids into a better jurisdiction. Just to try to give them a future.

So yeah. The people here are dead last (or near it) in education. But they also deserve to exist and to live. And being terrified to vote blue because you are told left and right and center that it'll starve your family is not a position I want anyone in. Not to mention there's so many people here that are queer. We see them every single day. We clock each other and love each other.

I’m all for fucking around and finding out but in this situation (trump & the billionaires trying to drag america into tech bro fascist hell) too many people are being hurt and too many more WILL die if things do not change. you do not need to forgive those who voted for him, you do not need to find the sympathy to feel bad for them now that they’re being affected by his policies. but we cannot turn them away once they turn on trump— and they are. too little too late, maybe. studying for the test after they failed, sure. but I’m so serious when I say this is not the time for perfectionism. this is the time to push a dictator & his cronies out with any hands that are willing to shove