In a fit of pique and rage, the prominent owner of a prominent theoretically liberal Democratic blog has announced that we should all be happy that coal miners are losing their benefits because Fuck them, they didn't vote for Hillary and now are reaping what they sowed, untreated disease and lingering death.

In some ways, it's helpful when masks are dropped in such a manner. Any ideas of Democrats being the compassionate and empathetic Party of the working class can be put aside as the window dressing many suspected it was, but which has now been confirmed by this major cog in the Democratic machine. The gates were crashed and the pickets used to impale recalcitrant blue collar voters who didn't even know what side their bread was buttered on, goddamit!

I might take this story a little more personally than most. How many people do you think choose to be coal miners? I am the actual granddaughter of a coal miner who was a Polish immigrant to this country. My grandfather died from black lung disease. Coal miners are concentrated in small towns and in many cases multiple generations of the same family become miners as it is the best paying job opportunity in their area, albeit the most hazardous.

The question left unaddressed by the prominent blog owner is why these pathetic and ignorant drones of the underground (his apparent view) didn't understand how it would be to their advantage to vote for the most qualified person ever to run for President?

First some backstory -Retired Coal Miners At Risk of Losing Promised Health Coverage and Pensions

This is no new issue and has been on the burner for years if you read the article. So the Democrats and Hillary have a f-ing fantastic position to use to their advantage in coal country - vote for us to protect your pensions and healthcare.

Instead what do they do? Hillary makes the insane pronouncement "we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work" - in other words threatening the immediate livelihood of current workers in the industry who number about 174,000 which does not include numbers related to indirect employment to the industry. Add to that the 16,000 retired miners whose pensions and health benefits are under threat. So we're up to about 200,000 voters in swing states whose lives and industry have been maligned by the Democratic candidate actually chortling about their imminent unemployment.

Does Hillary attempt to address her reveal mispeak by touring these blue battlegrounds to reshape herself as these workers' champion? No, she does not. She ignores them and their states. She attends small fundraisers with wealthy supporters who will pay six figures to rub elbows with her and Bill. It will be revealed that the Party and it's leaders in fact do consider the blue collar vote disposable and dispensable, because they would actually prefer getting more people of their preferred voter ilk - suburban moderate voters which they hope will replace the blue collar vote by 2 to 1.

If anything, Hillary and the Dems told the blue collar vote in no uncertain terms that they weren't their champions and were actively working against them, but hey, let's blame these voters anyway for their failure to rally around her and to fight off Trump.

Look forward to many more losses ahead with people like this at the helm of the Democratic ship.