" and so on), these talking points would be carefully crafted for a specific purpose, to coax guests awayfrom customary expressions of pride ("What do you do?
And we should not in any way minimize that, or take that away, that that certainty and pridefrom the leadership and the workers in these plants and in these communities that have made that sacrifice and have worked hard every day, it shouldn't be minimized.
That potent and instinctive emotion whose reason for being is to protect us from pain (including the emotional variety) and urge us awayfrom anything it perceives might threaten our sense of self, injure our pride, or rattle our world.