Life is not fair. It has never been fair. I didn't go to college. My husband did but costs were reasonable fifty years ago. Our son earned a four year degree fifteen years ago, but he also worked and we paid tuition. There were no loans, but costs had not yet skyrocketed. I agree loan forgiveness is a stupid idea pushed by Progressives …
Life is not fair. It has never been fair. I didn't go to college. My husband did but costs were reasonable fifty years ago. Our son earned a four year degree fifteen years ago, but he also worked and we paid tuition. There were no loans, but costs had not yet skyrocketed. I agree loan forgiveness is a stupid idea pushed by Progressives but it won't stop us from voting Democrat. Republicans are an authoritarian party hellbent on destroying democracy. Nineteen ten year olds were massacred in Uvalde, but R's always choose guns over dead children. As for the elitist tag, it's always wealthy white guys using it to criticize the other side. We're not Democrats, but we know they're the only party that isn't racist, xenophobic or authoritarian.
Thanks, Rita, for saying it well. A stupid idea by Democrats to forgive student loans that might be unfair to some people? Or Republicans as an authoritarian party hellbent on destroying democracy? Hmmm......which one should I get more exercised about? Which one should help me decide who to vote for (or against)? To me, it's a no-brainer.
I agree, Rita. It’s mind boggling to me that some voters find one thing in the Democratic agenda they disagree with, or even something completely outside of any “agenda”, like rising global gas prices, and they basically say, “Well, might as well vote for a fascist!”
Apparently Mussolini didn’t actually make the trains run on time, but he claimed it anyway and people followed like sheep. Much similar to MAGA. It’s an old playbook
It's almost as if keeping things fair keeps you away from authoritarianism. We live in a country with runaway wealth inequality and significant political divisions between economic winners and losers. No wonder we're inching toward authoritarianism. We're letting the dynasty-builders who broke the meritocracy win, of course people are going to be pissed off. Fix the inequality, you fix the resentment, you fix the voter problem. Keep things unfair and unequal, welp, expect to see more people who want to burn the system down politically when there's no recourse for fixing the economic inequality. We'll be yelling "sorry kids, life isn't fair" all the way to the fall of democracy at this rate because we refuse to address the working class resentment of the economic losers in this country.
Economic inequality mostly exists across educational lines nowadays in a society where the educated are increasingly self-segregating in both marriage and neighborhood. They're concentrating wealth and education across the post-college class and leaving a lot of folks behind economically just as a matter of where they cluster together in communities. Those communities have higher property taxes that fund better school districts and are dense with well-off parents whose children form social capital networks with other kids who will also go on to become more successful than average. That's the rigged system. The people who already have it good increasingly flocking together and then pulling up the economic ladder from underneath them. The top 9.9% of earners in this country own more collective wealth than both the 0.1% *and* the bottom 90%. There's your decadent scribe class concentrating wealth and education so they can live their best lives at the expense of everyone else getting crowded out. Why do you think we're living through a mass-migration of coastal city-dwellers into younger sun belt cities? It's because liberal mayors let the rich in their cities price out about half of the middle class. People can't afford to live there anymore. That's liberal mayors refusing to tax the donor class while chanting progressive slogans about the "99%" lol. The liberals are the ones creating wealth inequality now while shouting about taxing the rich and then never doing it. And then they wonder how we got a country full of anti-"managerial elite" Trumpers lol.
Life is not fair. It has never been fair. I didn't go to college. My husband did but costs were reasonable fifty years ago. Our son earned a four year degree fifteen years ago, but he also worked and we paid tuition. There were no loans, but costs had not yet skyrocketed. I agree loan forgiveness is a stupid idea pushed by Progressives but it won't stop us from voting Democrat. Republicans are an authoritarian party hellbent on destroying democracy. Nineteen ten year olds were massacred in Uvalde, but R's always choose guns over dead children. As for the elitist tag, it's always wealthy white guys using it to criticize the other side. We're not Democrats, but we know they're the only party that isn't racist, xenophobic or authoritarian.
Thanks, Rita, for saying it well. A stupid idea by Democrats to forgive student loans that might be unfair to some people? Or Republicans as an authoritarian party hellbent on destroying democracy? Hmmm......which one should I get more exercised about? Which one should help me decide who to vote for (or against)? To me, it's a no-brainer.
I agree, Rita. It’s mind boggling to me that some voters find one thing in the Democratic agenda they disagree with, or even something completely outside of any “agenda”, like rising global gas prices, and they basically say, “Well, might as well vote for a fascist!”
Apparently Mussolini didn’t actually make the trains run on time, but he claimed it anyway and people followed like sheep. Much similar to MAGA. It’s an old playbook
It's almost as if keeping things fair keeps you away from authoritarianism. We live in a country with runaway wealth inequality and significant political divisions between economic winners and losers. No wonder we're inching toward authoritarianism. We're letting the dynasty-builders who broke the meritocracy win, of course people are going to be pissed off. Fix the inequality, you fix the resentment, you fix the voter problem. Keep things unfair and unequal, welp, expect to see more people who want to burn the system down politically when there's no recourse for fixing the economic inequality. We'll be yelling "sorry kids, life isn't fair" all the way to the fall of democracy at this rate because we refuse to address the working class resentment of the economic losers in this country.
They want economic inequality fixed so they keep voting for Republicans that created the economic inequality?
Economic inequality mostly exists across educational lines nowadays in a society where the educated are increasingly self-segregating in both marriage and neighborhood. They're concentrating wealth and education across the post-college class and leaving a lot of folks behind economically just as a matter of where they cluster together in communities. Those communities have higher property taxes that fund better school districts and are dense with well-off parents whose children form social capital networks with other kids who will also go on to become more successful than average. That's the rigged system. The people who already have it good increasingly flocking together and then pulling up the economic ladder from underneath them. The top 9.9% of earners in this country own more collective wealth than both the 0.1% *and* the bottom 90%. There's your decadent scribe class concentrating wealth and education so they can live their best lives at the expense of everyone else getting crowded out. Why do you think we're living through a mass-migration of coastal city-dwellers into younger sun belt cities? It's because liberal mayors let the rich in their cities price out about half of the middle class. People can't afford to live there anymore. That's liberal mayors refusing to tax the donor class while chanting progressive slogans about the "99%" lol. The liberals are the ones creating wealth inequality now while shouting about taxing the rich and then never doing it. And then they wonder how we got a country full of anti-"managerial elite" Trumpers lol.
Links would be great. I don't mean links for the readily available statistics. I mean links for all those inferences.
To paraphrase Cool Hand Luke, calling life unfair don't make it right...
Glad we're all finding our 2022 political strategies in Boomer flicks from the 60's lol
Agree, but it makes it true.
Preach