Yeah White America, have real heroes, like traders.
It's kind of ludicrous to lump that with cowboys, cops or the military who all have guns (at least so far as the popular myth goes).
There's a mystique alright to (coal) miners and it predates global warming and since it's present in most industrial countries (you might have heard of Stakhanov ?) it's not because of the gold rush image of a dashing, independent entrepreneur making it big.
Miners are actual working class heroes. Obsolete perhaps, but myths die hard. The pandering is pretty absurd but you know what they say about pictures speaking a thousand words...
