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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

David Brooks wrote a good article in the New York Times today that tries to help shift perspectives a bit to understand this. I'd highly recommend reading it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is the farthest thing from a good article that I've read in some time. I suppose that it does give some insights to why trumpers act the way they do, however trying to align their actions with some sort of 'we the elitists need to do a better job at not being elitist' mentality is rather dumb at first glance, and a bit insidious upon closer examination.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The ideal that “we’re all in this together” was replaced with the reality that the educated class lives in a world up here, and everybody else is forced into a world down there. Members of our class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.

I love how Brooks can talk about class without bringing labor into it. Just a great example of liberals missing the damn point.

Then he goes on to talk about "open immigration" like that's even close to what we have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Seems 12ft.io doesn't work for NYT, but archive.is does:

https://archive.is/r8L9I