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You see calls for limits on guns every day on DCUM.  EVERY day. [b]suggesting the mentally ill not be able to legally obtain guns isn't eroding your gun rights[/b] Religious rights continue to be eroded away gradually [b]example? last I checked, the president, the current one, is a devout practicing catholic - what religious rights have been eroded?[/b] -- look at the COVID threads saying a religious exemption isn't a valid reason to excuse a vaccine.[b]there is no mandatory requirement for a vaccine, if you don't want it, don't get one[/b]  Look at the war on charter schools.[b] we don't want public money supporting religious education, just like you don't want public money supporting abortions...that isn't a war on charter schools[/b]  These things are happening and are supported by the party.

As for actual benefits, that's easy but you won't like that either.  Under Obama, the mines closed. [b]the mines were closing anyhow, you are blaming Obama for a dying industry[/b]  Trump opened them back up. [b]LOL, statistics suggest otherwise, the net number of coal jobs srank over the last 4 years - facts matter[/b] Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline as basically his first major move.[b]yes, because we don't need to be heavily subsidizing fossil fuels anymore. It is a 19th century technology that causes great harm and we have better alternatives and the first step is training the blue collar workers in the new economy, but you keep voting republican and rejecting that aid  [/b]You can send me all the articles you want about how it was going to happen anyway, and you might even be right -- but my FB feed is filled with people who lost jobs, got jobs back, are losing them again.  When that's your family, care a lot more than when it's a random report in the WaPo.[b] because FB is such an accurate source of information. Why bother to send you links if you aren't going to read them?[/b]

The $15 minimum wage is a core issue too.  People are struggling enough to find work, and they know that there will be fewer jobs.  I know that didn't happen in Seattle, but rural WV isn't Seattle.  Plenty of people have been working for decades and don't make $15 an hour there.  They don't want to lose those jobs either, and they know they might well with a $15/hour minimum wage, because the business owners aren't any too wealthy either and there's no more fat to trim.[b] The GOP could engage in an honest conversation about regionalizing the minimum wage, but rejecting it outright forces the issue in a direction that you don't support. Why not demand your elected officials engage in that conversation?[/b]

A local high school basketball player was shot and killed over the weekend.  He's black.  the white community is in an uproar about it.  That could have been their kid.  It is NOT all about race in WV.  The mines desegregated LONG before your northern factory cities did.[b]horrible that a kid was shot and killed - yes people can be outraged. that doesn't undo the systemic racism that occurs in our society[/b][/quote][/quote]

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