Do you think anyone who points out the obvious is a troll? Look, this post makes people on the left look bad. This is the sort of thing that allows the right wing to accuse liberals of being elitist. I don't need to be a Republican to point that out. Open you eyes. Realize that when the Republicans accuse the Democrats of being elitists it resonates for a reason. This post illustrates what that reason is. Mocking these people in West Virginia is not apt to win them over, is it? Nor is it apt to win anyone else over. It illustrates an attitude that hurts us and plays into the hands of the Bushes and the Roves. Not good, especially when Obama has been wounded politically with accusations of being elitist. This post emphasizes why those attacks work. Reflexively assuming that only a Republican troll would point this out shows a closed mindedness that will damage those opposed to the pro-capitalist pro-war side. If you think I'm a troll you are silly. Wake up.

Let me be even more clear: I am accusing you of playing into the hands of the Bushes, the McCains, the Roves. Mocking poor working class West Virginians for their being ill informed pushes them even deeper into the right-wing camp. It is a self defeating attitude and should be discouraged. Don't act this way unless you want to lose people like this again. Mockery rarely wins anyone to your side, even though you can make yourself feel superior.

Check out the facts about West Virginia in terms of average income. This was a working class state filled with strong union members in such industries as coal mining. The unions there, like the rest of the country, systematically have been weakened. Traditional mining jobs have been disappearing. The land has been raped with a change to a new form of mining that simply rips the tops of mountains and poisons the water table. The education and economic levels in Appalachia are among the lowest in our country. I don't doubt that you are a humanist and a humorist (at least in terms of your self image), but your use of this sort of mockery won't win many West Virginians to vote for a Democrat this November. Mockery and insults may feel like humor, but they are not effective ways to win people to our side. Stop it if you want real change that includes the people you mock.

As to me being closed minded because I won't for for Hillary for any position: I don't vote for people who claim to be progressive and act consistently against progressive interests. I don't vote for people who consistently vote for wars and who use bellicose language to advance their political careers. I'm not open to supporting such things, so I suppose I'm closed minded in that. Wouldn't have voted in the 1850s for a politician who supported slavery. Would have been closed minded about that, too. Can't vote for Hillary; she's on the wrong side. She's too Republican for me.

From one Obama supporter to another, you fail on both counts of humor and humanity. Be more respectful of your fellows.

You're a humorist in your fucking dreams. No place else...