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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't believe I've said that Trump voters are racists in this thread, and it seems like you are bringing it up in order to change the subject. Whatever else is true, Trump voters are white and more affluent than Biden or Clinton voters, in general.
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No. Adder likes that corner.
My response to you was regarding your assertion I’ve no love for the dirt poor. Neither of us does. Your charity is largely performative. For us to make real redistributions that would help the truly poor and middle, people like us would have to seriously downgrade our lifestyles. The economy would have to be radically altered.
I think it’s beyond policy solutions, and impossible. You employ the performative act of addressing the desperate with crumbs from the state via tax hikes that cost you at the margin in the moment but keep in place an economic system that makes you 100x that over the long term.
You get to feel good without really doing anything that causes you to acquire skin in the game. Same here. I talk a good game, and I did bet against this country in 2008 (and lost on it), but when the bailout lost on first vote and an apocalypse looked real, I dropped my libertarian shtick real quick.
I don’t like being called selfish by the selfish. We’re all in the club to some degree. (Look up the parasitic effects of the upper middle and affluent classes on the poor... Giridharadas does a great job.) Stop bullshitting yourself. Welcome to Self-Interested Club.
