"One party does want to tax the rich. The other does not."
When was the last time an elected dem put forward a bill specifically designed to tax the rich more at either the state or federal level? The last one I can think of was the voter prop that Gov Newsom vetoed that would have levied a 4% wealth tax on California's rich to fund--of c…
"One party does want to tax the rich. The other does not."
When was the last time an elected dem put forward a bill specifically designed to tax the rich more at either the state or federal level? The last one I can think of was the voter prop that Gov Newsom vetoed that would have levied a 4% wealth tax on California's rich to fund--of course--carbon offset initiatives. Gavin didn't like the idea of him and his rich buddies having to pay a 4% wealth tax to pursue fighting against climate change, so he sunk the initiative and is still popular with the libs of California who didn't seem to take it as a slight against their policy wishes.
"This is absolutely true but their definition of elite has nothing to do with economics (see Trump). It has to do with education."
I'm glad to see that you can see the diploma divide at work in our political polarization but I'm sad that Ezra still can't for some reason.
"Why? For the exact same reason the 4 oldest have college educated friends. It’s self sorting."
Self-sorting is a choice, and it's often a selective choice to leave those who are unlike you behind in favor of new friends who are more like you now. For post-college liberals, this is a choice to leave behind friends from high school who didn't go on to college and replace them with new friends who did. I don't know exactly HOW to tell post-college liberals this, but that shit is really really hurtful to the people they knew who didn't go to college and who were socially left behind because of it. I myself was one of those people even though I'm post-grad school now. I watched all my friends go off to college before me while I served in the military as a 2nd responder after 9/11. I watched those people slide out of my life because they were too busy partying and making new friends than to keep up with someone who had been with them from the start and who was going through some of the worst times of my life as I redeployed to combat 3 times in 2.5 years between the ages of 19-21. Real friends would have stayed in touch and would have tired to help support me in any way that they could. While I understand now that separations of geography can indeed cause friendships to attrite, you can't say that there's no choice involved because the folks who go on to college can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time by making new friends and staying in touch with older ones who didn't get a degree at the same time. That it's so easy for them to socially leave the non-college friends behind is a big statement about who they are and how they saw those older friends. There was a lot of self-sorting alright, and it came at the cost of abandoning others. It's no wonder that so many of the non-college who were socially abandoned by the post-college have such feelings of resentment and a desire for retribution. It also explains why they're so angry at the political party who wrapped their arms so tightly around the post-college crowd.
"One party does want to tax the rich. The other does not."
When was the last time an elected dem put forward a bill specifically designed to tax the rich more at either the state or federal level? The last one I can think of was the voter prop that Gov Newsom vetoed that would have levied a 4% wealth tax on California's rich to fund--of course--carbon offset initiatives. Gavin didn't like the idea of him and his rich buddies having to pay a 4% wealth tax to pursue fighting against climate change, so he sunk the initiative and is still popular with the libs of California who didn't seem to take it as a slight against their policy wishes.
"This is absolutely true but their definition of elite has nothing to do with economics (see Trump). It has to do with education."
I'm glad to see that you can see the diploma divide at work in our political polarization but I'm sad that Ezra still can't for some reason.
"Why? For the exact same reason the 4 oldest have college educated friends. It’s self sorting."
Self-sorting is a choice, and it's often a selective choice to leave those who are unlike you behind in favor of new friends who are more like you now. For post-college liberals, this is a choice to leave behind friends from high school who didn't go on to college and replace them with new friends who did. I don't know exactly HOW to tell post-college liberals this, but that shit is really really hurtful to the people they knew who didn't go to college and who were socially left behind because of it. I myself was one of those people even though I'm post-grad school now. I watched all my friends go off to college before me while I served in the military as a 2nd responder after 9/11. I watched those people slide out of my life because they were too busy partying and making new friends than to keep up with someone who had been with them from the start and who was going through some of the worst times of my life as I redeployed to combat 3 times in 2.5 years between the ages of 19-21. Real friends would have stayed in touch and would have tired to help support me in any way that they could. While I understand now that separations of geography can indeed cause friendships to attrite, you can't say that there's no choice involved because the folks who go on to college can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time by making new friends and staying in touch with older ones who didn't get a degree at the same time. That it's so easy for them to socially leave the non-college friends behind is a big statement about who they are and how they saw those older friends. There was a lot of self-sorting alright, and it came at the cost of abandoning others. It's no wonder that so many of the non-college who were socially abandoned by the post-college have such feelings of resentment and a desire for retribution. It also explains why they're so angry at the political party who wrapped their arms so tightly around the post-college crowd.