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I live in McArthur (not from here though). I have never been in the hotel. Very interesting info you shared. Thank you!

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Vance will happily blurt out whatever is profitable for him at any given point in time. I currently live in the exact area of Ohio Vance used in Hillbilly Elegy to illustrate the "white working class" as drug abusing, uneducated, lazy, child neglecting, fist fighting over Thanksgiving dinner, white trash. While you have plenty of that in this area (as in ANY area); Vance's stereotyped version of all peoples, belonging to his PREVIOUS social class, is so noxious that Hillbilly Elegy is insulting instead of motivating. Even failing to simply explicate to his readers, who still find ourselves without the jobs we had ten years ago, five years ago, pre-pandemic; how this is our doing and a choice we consciously made. He has done nothing but patronize and aggressively alienate those he states he's trying to tough love into a better lot in life. If only we would get up off the couch and get a job! Thanks for the advice, Vance! Maybe I can fit a fourth in! My seventeen year old already works two while finishing HS and career training. He is going to be so excited to learn he can look forward to you motivating him into another! Lazy teens, ya know! Still finds time to help me coordinate coupons and add every item we put in the cart to make sure we don't suffer the embarrassment of returning an item at the register. We don't need another politician to condescend to us, we don't need another politician who is worth millions while his constituents earn an average of $35k annually. A politician who is an enlightened, upper-class liberal exclaiming how my ten year old car is poisoning their air one day and a republican telling me how my children don't deserve dental care because I'm either too lazy OR make too much, tomorrow. Yeah, give me some MORE of that! Stop insulting our intellect and frankly, our patience. You could always return to sunny California and proselytize to your ivy league colleagues on the "hillbilly" mindset over brunch. If they'll have ya back, since you're a switch hitter and all... It is apparent that Vance is a man of little conscious. He dissimulates his political leanings, morality and character to whatever group he's pandering to, or is currently signing his checks. He assumes that we're all too ignorant to question the motivation for his blatant doublespeak and inability to take ownership of his whiplash inducing political affiliates and ideologies. His book is clear; He believes that the white working class is ignorant, uncouth and just decidedly disgruntled. All while refusing to get off our collective "lazy ass" and attempting any meaningful change on our own behalf to better our own circumstances. That's what he believes about you and yours and me and mine. Just like the rest of them. Manchin is on a yacht while plenty of people in WV can't afford clean drinking water. We're not being robbed into a third world country, we already have been. He believes that the people of Appalachia are willfully ignorant and contented to follow any leader willing to point a finger of blame and say "that's who is responsible for your position in life. I'll lead you into the promise land of no longer calculating your groceries before checking out, paying all bills on time and affording to plan for an emergency, much less a future." He truly believes we neither want nor deserve it. We'll continue, according to him, to waste our money, refuse to work and spend what little money we have frivolously and with no regard to tomorrow. Hell, he may he right about that, it's hard to save up for a future I try to avoid thinking much about these days. I imagine, in my home, we'll be working until we, quite literally, die. That's our collective future, for all of us. All while republicans point the finger at democrats and they point it right back. The camera is off and they're patting each other on the back on the way to the bank. I imagine I'll pass away the same as my father, a week before his fiftieth birthday at work after burying his mother two days prior, who was herself forced to live off of meager disability support until she died, injured at work in her factory job she had to support her family. Forced monthly to choose between insulin and heart medication or groceries. Still believing in the American dream straight into a dementia diagnosis... Vance knows what the rabid masses are craving and he's happy to sellout to provide them with an undeserving scapegoat. All while ignoring or addressing the ever worse living standards, income disparities, "zip code destiny", any of the more nuanced and systemic reasons people end up living in third world conditions in my own/VANCE's zip code. He's part of the party that keeps us poor, alongside Pelosi, alongside Trump, etc.. They're all the party of the rich nobility and we're the new sharecropers/serfs. Same dynamic, different century. Telling us to be jealous of each other instead of demanding a change where it matters. They keep us entertained with frivolous matters and they work us until we're too tired to even care. Much less mount any real constructive changes to their kleptocracy. Round and round we go. *TLDR* Vance has zero respect for and he will have zero candor with his constituents. Rant over and out.