Democratic WV state senate candidate gets beaten up and nearly killed

[IceSpear]

This will soon be the fate of all WV Democrats. I recommend all of them get out of that hellhole while they still can.

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I hope if Hillary wins we can make West Virginia our new nuclear waste disposal area. It's certainly more deserving than poor Yucca Mountain. We can rename it Waste Virginia.

[IceSpear]

I hope if Hillary wins we can make West Virginia our new nuclear waste disposal area. It's certainly more deserving than poor Yucca Mountain. We can rename it Waste Virginia.

If the Democrats are serious about claiming any degree of moral superiority over the Republicans at all, this cannot be the party's attitude towards any part of the country, regardless of how much reason there is to dislike the people living there. The American left cannot turn into Margaret Thatcher deliberately pursuing policies that will hurt unsympathetic demographics and justifying it with 'they are not our people'. It is neither morally justifiable nor, in the final analysis, politically efficacious.

Well, they (WV) hates Hillary but her "Marshall Plan" for WV is their only real hope.  They love Trump but there's nothing he can do to stop Appalachian natural gas from burying Appalachian coal.  It's a pickle. 

I mean, obviously they're reflexively voting in profoundly self-destructive ways, but that's no excuse to deliberately make things worse for them like IceSpear is suggesting. (I know there's a distinct possibility that he's not serious, but given his general opinion of poor whites, Poe's law is very much in effect.)

Yes, I'm genuinely advocating giving radiation poisoning to two million people, including children. You caught me.

[IceSpear]

A candidate gets viciously attacked, and all you can talk about is how horrible West Virginia is?

West Virginia is the new Oklahoma on here. Just watch, its going to get worse.

And then people are wondering why Democrats get crushed among White voters lol

No one cares.

Well, good luck ever winning Congress back without White voters.

No one cares.

Why get enough elected officials to enact policy you care about when you could keep talking about how elite and awesome your coalition is??  LOL.

Man, West Virginia really gets you in a tizzy, doesn't it? Don't be so obsessed! You guys can have them, we're not taking them back.

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Why get enough elected officials to enact policy you care about when you could keep talking about how elite and awesome your coalition is??  LOL.

Hey, I mean it's good for Republicans. With that attitude, Democrats will be staring into oblivion at the congressional and statewide level for a very long time.

Republicans are clearly doomed as well, because they don't attempt to appeal to Vermont socialists and Bay Area hippies.

[IceSpear]

The candidate who got beaten up just won in a landslide.

But but but West Virginia is terrible!!!!!!!!

...is what you, Daily Kos, and the rest of the liberal blogosphere thought in 2008. Remember how they were all disgusting racists because Obama got destroyed there? Glad to see you've remained consistent.

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Atlas has really been exposing a lot of liberal hypocrisy lately.  The GOP isn't out there advertising itself as this undisputed champion of the people, even if it uses populist appeals to certain groups.  Democrats couldn't care less about entire groups (and neither could Republicans, but they don't pretend otherwise); their ideology has pretty much evolved to "Republicans are ing stupid, and if you don't agree, you can  off because you're as stupid as them."

Atlas has also been exposing that they think bashing racists means you're being "elitist" against the "white working class." Why do people here assume all white working class people are racists? It's a very offensive insinuation.

[IceSpear]

Except not all West Virginians are racist. Judd was simply a protest candidate. Sure, I'd bet a few of his votes came from racism, but there were no exit polls, and if there were, I doubt Judd voters would say that 'race' is the issue they're most concerned about.

As I said in another thread, of course not all of them are racist. But a substantial enough portion of them are for me to view the state overall in a negative light.

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IceSpear what if a really cute guy was flirting with you but then you found out he was from West Virginia?

I don't hate all West Virginians, just the terrible ones. Besides, since there's no way I'd step foot in West Virginia under any circumstances, I'd imagine that this hypothetical guy has relocated, in which case I'd welcome him as a refugee.

[IceSpear]

IceSpear what if a really cute guy was flirting with you but then you found out he was from West Virginia?

I don't hate all West Virginians, just the terrible ones. Besides, since there's no way I'd step foot in West Virginia under any circumstances, I'd imagine that this hypothetical guy has relocated, in which case I'd welcome him as a refugee.

"I don't hate black people, I just hate *******."

You do see the irony of your statement, right?

West Virginian is not a race. lol

[IceSpear]

IceSpear what if a really cute guy was flirting with you but then you found out he was from West Virginia?

I don't hate all West Virginians, just the terrible ones. Besides, since there's no way I'd step foot in West Virginia under any circumstances, I'd imagine that this hypothetical guy has relocated, in which case I'd welcome him as a refugee.

"I don't hate black people, I just hate *******."

You do see the irony of your statement, right?

West Virginian is not a race. lol

I don't hate all Muslims...

Only on the Atlas Forum would people compare disliking a state to racism or religious bigotry.

The boner you guys have for West Virginia is starting to get a little out of hand.

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And you're still missing the point.

What is your point?