President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Azrael · Feb 22, 2024

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Increasingly, the political gap breaks on education.

Opinion | The Political Failure of Bidenomics

Even when Biden does something for working men and women - and he's done more than Trump - his party is viewed as hostile to working men and women.

Matthew Goodwin, a political scientist who writes about the diploma divide in Britain, titled his recent book “Values, Voice and Virtue.” He argues the educated and less educated have different values. The former are cosmopolitan progressive while the latter are traditionalist — faith, family, flag. He continues that educated voices drown out less-educated voices thanks to their dominance at universities and in the media, the arts, nonprofits and bureaucracies. Less-educated voters feel unheard and unseen. Goodwin writes that across the Western world, “workers and nongraduates are consistently the most likely to endorse statements such as ‘the government does not care what people like me think.’”

Finally, less-educated voters feel morally judged for being socially backward. An analysis of more than 65,000 people across 36 countries by the Dutch scholar Jochem van Noord found that people who do not belong to the new elite are not only united by economic insecurity, but also by “feelings of misrecognition, that is, the extent to which people have the feeling that they do not play a meaningful role in society, that they possess a (stigmatized) identity that is looked down upon.”

The British writer David Goodhart gets to the nub: “In the last two decades it sometimes feels as if an enormous social vacuum cleaner has sucked up status from manual occupations, even skilled ones, and reallocated it to the middling and higher cognitive professions and the prosperous metropolitan centers and university towns.”
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Azrael said: ↑

"Economics" is a vibe.
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2muchcoffeeman · Feb 22, 2024

garrow said: ↑

LOL

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garrow · Feb 22, 2024

LOL

DanielSimpsonDay · Feb 22, 2024

dixiehack said: ↑

“is viewed”
“feel”
“feel”
“feelings”
“the feeling”
“it sometimes feels”

It’s Biden’s job as a politician to overcome skepticism and get enough votes on his side. But for society at large, eventually there’s got to be something more tangible for us to address than “feelings.” At what point are people expected to have a degree of agency in how they feel?
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are we not fucking feelings anymore or did the woke mob take that too

Azrael · Feb 22, 2024

Alma said: ↑

Increasingly, the political gap breaks on education.

Opinion | The Political Failure of Bidenomics

Even when Biden does something for working men and women - and he's done more than Trump - his party is viewed as hostile to working men and women.

Matthew Goodwin, a political scientist who writes about the diploma divide in Britain, titled his recent book “Values, Voice and Virtue.” He argues the educated and less educated have different values. The former are cosmopolitan progressive while the latter are traditionalist — faith, family, flag. He continues that educated voices drown out less-educated voices thanks to their dominance at universities and in the media, the arts, nonprofits and bureaucracies. Less-educated voters feel unheard and unseen. Goodwin writes that across the Western world, “workers and nongraduates are consistently the most likely to endorse statements such as ‘the government does not care what people like me think.’”

Finally, less-educated voters feel morally judged for being socially backward. An analysis of more than 65,000 people across 36 countries by the Dutch scholar Jochem van Noord found that people who do not belong to the new elite are not only united by economic insecurity, but also by “feelings of misrecognition, that is, the extent to which people have the feeling that they do not play a meaningful role in society, that they possess a (stigmatized) identity that is looked down upon.”

The British writer David Goodhart gets to the nub: “In the last two decades it sometimes feels as if an enormous social vacuum cleaner has sucked up status from manual occupations, even skilled ones, and reallocated it to the middling and higher cognitive professions and the prosperous metropolitan centers and university towns.”
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In what way does this working class discontent differ from working class discontent going back to Ancient Rome?

Brooks transcends even self-parody.

Neutral Corner · Feb 22, 2024

On the first day of CPAC. Love it.

Neutral Corner · Feb 22, 2024

Twirling Time said: ↑

So, what did I miss during the Great AT&T Outage of 2024?
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Two hours of no one trying to call you, if your experience was anything like mine.

HanSenSE · Feb 22, 2024

dixiehack said: ↑

“is viewed”
“feel”
“feel”
“feelings”
“the feeling”
“it sometimes feels”

It’s Biden’s job as a politician to overcome skepticism and get enough votes on his side. But for society at large, eventually there’s got to be something more tangible for us to address than “feelings.” At what point are people expected to have a degree of agency in how they feel?
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goalmouth · Feb 22, 2024

If it's what you say it is, I love it!

BitterYoungMatador2 · Feb 22, 2024

dixiehack said: ↑

“is viewed”
“feel”
“feel”
“feelings”
“the feeling”
“it sometimes feels”

It’s Biden’s job as a politician to overcome skepticism and get enough votes on his side. But for society at large, eventually there’s got to be something more tangible for us to address than “feelings.” At what point are people expected to have a degree of agency in how they feel?
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Weren’t we fucking our feelings anyways?

garrow · Feb 22, 2024

GTFO with this

Alma · Feb 22, 2024

Azrael said: ↑

In what way does this working class discontent differ from working class discontent going back to Ancient Rome?

Brooks transcends even self-parody.
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What makes it self-parody?

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