Look at a map of West Virginia in last year's election. There's one on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_e...

Now take a look at what the candidate they didn't vote for had to say about them. Here's a page with the relevant quote: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/11/...

One of these people talked about how he cared for these people's struggle. He lied, but at least he did so credibly. The other of these people said "boy, it sure would be a good idea if we did that, too", and then didn't, while it became more obvious every day that the machinery of the party that worked for her had employed base chicanery to make sure an erstwhile opponent of hers, whom West Virginians had supported (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Democratic_pri...) before the choice was denied them, could not challenge her claim to hold the presidency by right.

But it's more comfortable to blame Russia for the wrong guy getting in. It's more fun, too, because who doesn't love a good conspiracy and an evil empire? So that's what we will do, and those of our brothers and sisters who are suffering because no one of import in the world's richest nation could give a damn about them will go on suffering. And when we tip over the edge of the cliff we're sliding toward and "eat the rich" ceases to be just a song, everyone who's helped drag us to that point of no return will look about wide-eyed in shock and horror and ask: "How did this happen?"

Well, I know how it'll happen, and I'm happy to tell you. Him that has ears to hear, let him hear: Your website says you're a man who knows his way around high places. Do you know your way around a metaphor? The Tarot card, "The Fool". It's a thin enough metaphor - thin as a cloud, and that picture from Mount Diablo says it'd hardly be the first time you've had your head in the clouds this year. Are you sure you don't still? Now how about a joke? "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." Well, now you know. But absurd though I be, the warning I'm yapping at you now is serious as falling off a cliff. Will you hear it? Will you heed it? Or, having gone up Devil's Mountain and seen all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them, will you let that vision make you a fool, and take that one last long step that sends you falling down into the abyss? For if you do, then woe unto you, Columbia! Woe unto you, Bethesda! For had the great works been done in Tyre and Sidon that have been done in you, they would have in sackcloth and ashes repented long since. But I say to you, it will be better for Tyre and for Sidon on the day of judgment, than for you. Do I smack of Ezekiel? Very well, then, so I do! - I am a sword, naked in hand, drawn not to strike but to goad; I am a shepherd's staff, swung not to wound but to guide, lest you bring about the fall of Blake's new Jerusalem, and lest the city on a hill be smashed one stone from another, and its tribes driven from their shattered homes into the outer darkness, there to chew their tongues and weep.

Or, you know, you could look at what's thus far resulted from the collective disinterest in those whose beliefs you find incompossible and whose customs incomprehensible, and consider what may yet result from continuing to leave them to their sufferings because - despite their desiring nothing out of life save to work hard, look after their families, and generally contribute to the society which supports you without expecting much save a fair shake in return - they do not fit your own individual conception of what your fellow citizens must be in order to qualify for the same social contract on which you so rely. And then, you know, decide to not do that.

I don't suggest you should so decide for any especially unselfish reason, either. I suggest you should so decide because, if you think Trump's bad, then believe me, you really do not want to see how much worse things could be. The way this country's constituted, even people you couldn't give a damn about have power. Indeed, each of them has as much as each of you, and that's not going to change. So if things go on as they have been, what comes after Trump, and not very long after at that, will be someone who makes similar promises of succor - and who promises to provide it on the backs of people like you, who always had it in their power to be kind but simply could not bother, and also on the backs of people like me, who are an affront against God and have been too long coddled by the likes of you.

I would like for that not to happen. I think you might like for that not to happen, too. Now you know how to make it less likely, instead of more. Indeed, I've told you twice - first in Old Testament kabbalah and fire-and-brimstone metaphor, and then again in bald statements of historical and political fact. If the latter doesn't convince you we have a problem, maybe the former will scare the hell out of you. Or vice versa. Who knows? Maybe one or the other will sink in, but I'd be lying if I said I expect either one to count for anything. Please prove me wrong.