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meus_ovatio in talk_politics

Class and family in the US and A.

Jan 04, 2012 12:54

I've been musing about something. Beware, for I have mused and you are now subject to its consequences! Something came up with got me thinking about family and how class continuity can effect politics. For instance, anecdote-wise, about 3/4ths of those I know are worse off than their parents than their parents were at their age. The rest are either ( Read more... )

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gunslnger January 6 2012, 04:08:39 UTC

You're too full of yourself to write it, is that it?

gunslnger January 6 2012, 04:08:18 UTC

Anecdote-wise, 4/5ths of those I know are better off than their parents were at their age. I don't know what that proves. Also, I'm pretty sure my liberal family members are not as well off as my conservative family members.

You can't have an increasing wealth forever, almost by definition.

But the more abstract question is what do these early fault-lines entail for the political process?

Probably nothing.

whak_hat January 6 2012, 05:10:24 UTC

It means that politicians are going to start getting new faces. No longer will we simply vote in the old white guy with his old-school ideas about how everyone should fit into their cookie-cutter shapes. We are changing, kicking and screaming of course, into a new world. 'Multiculturalism' is proving to be ineffective way to lose your entire country to a war you're not even aware you're fighting. Maintaining your old ways doesn't work either. So now we must evolve beyond both these ideals and become a new society, one that accepts differences while maintaining human rights above everything, even religion ( ... )