I think flex gave a good answer to the question in my previous post.
I’m now leaning toward an idea that I’ve had for quite a while which was reinforced by a recent e-mail message I got from Robert Reich’s Substack. Here are three of what seem to me to be the important bits:
On Tuesday, according to exit polls, Americans voted mainly on the economy — and their votes reflected their class and level of education.
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While the economy has improved over the last two years according to standard economic measures, most Americans without college degrees — that’s the majority — have not felt it.
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While Republicans steadily cut taxes on the wealthy, Democrats abandoned the working class.
Yeah, professional Democrats and Republicans are pretty much united in their support of large corporations and billionaires (although the Republicans crank it up to eleven and the Democrats are much better on “social issues”). That’s why I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary when he was still a viable candidate (although I wasn’t a “Bernie bro” who stayed home out of spite).
I’d love to just quote the whole thing, but that goes way beyond “fair use”. I guess the next job for this old fart is to figure out how to link to a particular post on somebody’s Substack.
