This is Nic Smith, a self-described "white trash hillbilly from the holler" with a lot of ideas about what's wrong with America. In the following video, Smith is pretty much right on the money about most things regarding the current state of wealth disparity, the need for a $15 minimum wage, and Donald Trump. (As far as economic solutions go, Smith's ideology adheres much closer to Bernie Sanders than Trump or even Hillary Clinton.)

"The coal industry has been dying through the mechanization of labor and good things like more affordable green energy, but another thing that's been causing the death of it is natural gas," Smith said to a group of people fighting for a $15 minimum wage in the state of Virginia. He argues that machines are being used to do jobs better than humans ever could, green energy is a real concern, and globalization is not the perceived threat to American jobs it's made out to be. "Immigrants are not taking coal jobs," he said bluntly.

Where Smith really nails it in his understanding that the actual enemy is corporate greed. "The only thing these companies care about is the dollar," he says. "They don't care about us. They've never cared about us." (As for all those alt-righters who are attempting to infect American politics with their nonsense? "Fuck them," Smith said.)

In regards to Trump's promise to bring back coal plants to his hometown, Smith knows it will be nearly impossible for the President-elect to deliver. "I know a lot of people who voted for him just because of that," he said. "If you woulda asked anyone in Dickinson County three of four years ago what they think of Donald Trump, they'd have said, 'He's a jackass Yankee who probably shoulda had his ass whooped a long time ago.'" As Smith explains, the pressing matter is that Dickinson County Virginia has a 25 percent poverty rate and an average income of less than $20,000 a year.

Coincidentally, Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would be appointing Carl's Jr. CEO Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary, a man fiercely opposed to raising the minimum wage who wants to replace fast food workers with robots.