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Coal mining has become much more automated. It now requires highly skilled engineers and equipment operators and does not need the massive man power as it once did.
Their jobs are never coming back and the ones that do are not good matches because they don't have the proper skills.
They were lied to then betrayed. We should not blame them. We should blame the leaders who lie to our working class. The ones who promise impossible things and deliver garbage.
Nah, those idiots in West Virginia voted for Trump 3 times in a row.
He was a known quantity.
Same with the idiots in the rust belt. Those low skill high paying jobs have been gone longer than they were there.
Shits obviously not coming back.