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Second, the Republican Party in its own ways is just as responsible for this nation's problems as the Democratic Party. The irresponsible Democratic Party maybe the "Make America the next Venezuela" party, but the Republicans have some pretty bad policies also. That includes being an ineffective opposition to the Democrats and basically dismissing entire areas of the country and entire ethnic/racial groups.
Many of the problems you describe are because the government is increasingly corporate establishment controlled and that is a problem in BOTH parties, not just the Democrats.
They should not be blamed for all this. They should be responsible for their part
Second, the Republican Party in its own ways is just as responsible for this nation's problems as the Democratic Party. The irresponsible Democratic Party maybe the "Make America the next Venezuela" party, but the Republicans have some pretty bad policies also. That includes being an ineffective opposition to the Democrats and basically dismissing entire areas of the country and entire ethnic/racial groups.
Many of the problems you describe are because the government is increasingly corporate establishment controlled and that is a problem in BOTH parties, not just the Democrats.
Look. I don't consider the two parties that different. I see them as one establishment. The republicans have no interest in being a genuine opposition. They are in the game together.
They overwhelmingly supported the rise of the democratic one-party state.
In this process, rents in big cities have risen so much that minorities and millennials got priced out. Now take transit for an hour to get to work. So go ahead and support more tech Mongols, urban growth limits, expensive libraries, etc. They help the rich enjoy all that.
They work for low-wage jobs, serving the older and wealthier people.
They went to college to "get smart." They explored the evils of capitalism, personal traumas, micro aggressions, and now serve fries and burgers.
They refuse to work outside Starbucks. So now they watch wages stagnate as employers look for immigrants.
How did it work out, kids?
I do agree with on your OP, however; don't forget that the Universities have sold Millennia's a bill of good and student loans that may never be paid back. Yes- they are still waiting tables and working at Starbucks and they can't pay down the debt -so they in turn decide to go back to College to get an even higher education and deeper into debt.
An in the "Real World" they have resorted to twitter and Facebook and have never learned how to communicate face-to-face and build lasting "Real World" relationships! Everything is about an EXPERIENCE- Live in the moment- with NO understanding of what it means to put real work behind what they need in life.
Why is it that every single person that I know who is defined as a millenial, either coworkers, friends or family members, has a job? Not only a job but a career? And they're not paupers. I'm pretty sure my niece makes more money than I do. Yet to hear it told by the ever moaning cons, they're all jobless, homeless, entitled brats? Odd.
I do agree with on your OP, however; don't forget that the Universities have sold Millennia's a bill of good and student loans that may never be paid back. Yes- they are still waiting tables and working at Starbucks and they can't pay down the debt -so they in turn decide to go back to College to get an even higher education and deeper into debt.
An in the "Real World" they have resorted to twitter and Facebook and have never learned how to communicate face-to-face and build lasting "Real World" relationships! Everything is about an EXPERIENCE- Live in the moment- with NO understanding of what it means to put real work behind what they need in life.
Do universities tell people what they think is the right thing in an ideal world, but the world is everything but I deal. The universities are also deeply invested in its financial power. So it has created a situation where are students have less of upward mobility.
Why is it that every single person that I know who is defined as a millenial, either coworkers, friends or family members, has a job? Not only a job but a career? And they're not paupers. I'm pretty sure my niece makes more money than I do. Yet to hear it told by the ever moaning cons, they're all jobless, homeless, entitled brats? Odd.
This is a very interesting link..thank you for posting it--I don't see just what it has to do with the thread--But I agree with most of what it says.
I agree, it was a good essay.
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“a nearly hereditary professional caste of lawyers, journalists, publicists, and intellectuals, an increasingly hereditary caste of politicians, tight coteries of cultural movers-and-shakers richly sponsored by multinational corporations.”
...self-serving cant coming from open-borders Londoners who love Afghan restaurants but would never live near an immigrant housing project, or American liberals who hail the end of whiteness while doing everything possible to keep their kids out of majority-minority schools...
They lived in a day before the term "yuppie" (and a lot of other terms of import) were expunged from American English. Instead we have casino-prison terms like "double down." Your prez likes to use that one.
And "overwhelmingly?" Says who? Where were you in, say, 1970? I want the evidence - the stats. Now get going. I'm not going to buy just any trash - or just because some empty skirt said so.
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