Sad, but oh well

to step up to the plate and do what Trump promised. But will they is another totally different issue. War between Herr Trump and Turtle? I doubt it.

I feel for them. After all, my SS and VA benefits are also on the Repub chopping block. So they can feel good about something, I guess. They're taking a lot of us "evil liberals" down with them.

While I clearly support legislation to support them, they have actively voted against this legislation going anywhere. So, in the end, I am supposed to feel...??

You either pity them as fools and patronize them, or you accept them as adults willing to make their own choices with intelligence.

A friend (48 years old) has relatives there in WV, and they're from decades old coal mining families, and most of them have sat around during reunions she attended over the past few decades or so years and have talked openly about how they think that minorities (Mexicans having 10 and more kids and living off welfare and and Lazy blacks who are druggies on food stamps-my friend said that's how they speak and think) have ruined this country. More recently, many have expressed their hatred of the Obama's--calling Michelle an ugly gorilla, Pres. Obama a "closet Kenya homo" and some call their daughters and the hole family monkeys. My friend said her piece this Summer, told them how racist, ignorant and small-minded they were/are and as a result, she's not ever going back there to any family reunions ever again. She got some nasty blow-back but said forget them.

She said some family members don't feel that way about The Obama's/minorities & who still vote Dem, but are scared to voice their opinion for fear of family ridicule so they go along to get along. My friend is no longer involving herself/her husband/minor children in that toxic, racist, negative environment again.

through families and social contacts.

Those who voted for Trump and believed he was going to deliver on his promises.

Their plight is not our problem.