Good news, bad news

Kadizzle just visited two public spots in the little hamlet of Hazen.  First, he stopped at the Cenex to get a drink.  Thinking it might be a good chance to garner a couple of votes for the cause Kadizzle asked two dolts behind the counter if they would vote for Heidi.  Both the women said they don't vote. Kadizzle explained to them they could actually vote themselves a raise, and even affordable health care.  Not interested.  The bad news is Kadizzle found the exact same pathetic attitude at the library where another young woman took pride in her unwillingness to vote.  The bad news is the abundance of dolts.  In a sample, three out of three young women turned out to be hopeless.

Now the good news, the dolts don't vote.  Given the alternative of having a dolt vote for Cramer or no vote for anyone, a no vote is somewhat of a victory.  So even after you explain in detail to these people who are young, stayed in Hazen, and are working for welfare wages, that they could do something about their plight, they just don't care.  How sad, stuck behind the counter at Cenex making minimum wage, and they have a chance to vote out the Republicans who love stomping on the poor.  Even after explaining to the poor young people that they could vote themselves a seven percent raise just by voting out the Republicans it made no difference.  These young women looked to be in their early twenties.  They never went to college, they don't have an ounce of ambition, and are content to spend their lives on the welfare roles.  It is hard to feel sorry for people who will not help themselves, but Kadizzle does.  The terrible immigrants that want to come to this country want to come and get ahead.  Those people coming to America are willing to work, vote, and move up the economic ladder.  Meanwhile we have young people that grew up right here in Hazen that don't have the ambition of a hunting dog.  The food was put on the table for them.  The real kicker is the one girl works in the library.  Nothing is as astounding as a person who works in a library and is clueless about the world, the economy, politics, and their own future.  This whole thing gets Kadizzle down, but there is hope.  In every case the smart ones left. The town is dying and one reason for it is the brain drain.  The kids that paid attention in school left, they saw the hopelessness of graduating and getting a job driving a coal truck in a circle.  The downturn of the coal industry, and that also means the coal fired power plants, means the end of just moving from high school to a good job.  Basin, which is a major player in the job market here has seen the future and it is dim.  Basin has already laid off 300 people.  The good old days are over.  Out west the boom is warming up, but the dumbest person knows oil is always boom and bust.  So the young will just sit here and wait for the bottom to fall out.  The politicians will tell the dolts you can solve the problem with clean coal. The same guys would have promoted horses that did not need to be fed, the dolts would have believed them.

To run into three people failed by education and doomed to a life of marginal living all one after the next is depressing, but hopefully those young people who left the sinking ship will be on islands of hope.  It seems the snake oil salesmen will pull it off once more in North Dakota. The insidious virus of the Donald Trump mentality has infected the dolts.  There is only one cure for extreme stupidity, it is cold and hunger.  As long as there is gas for the pick up and the big TV gets cable no problem.  We can watch Fox and football, but when you are cold and hungry no matter how dumb you are you have to try something different.  The first thing to try is what they did in Dayton.  Try some opioids. Let yourself enrich the drug companies once more. As the Trump disaster unfolds who will take care of the dolts?  They will become a burden no matter how you slice it.  Don't forget the dolts voted Republican in the last election, they love a good story about how prosperity and jobs are coming there way.