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STEPHEN MOORE: The Real Story Of The Two Americas

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Ptarmigan:
STEPHEN MOORE: The Real Story Of The Two Americas
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/21/opinion-the-real-story-of-the-two-americas-stephen-moore/


--- Quote ---For the past thirty years or so the left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas. A group of very super-rich people (the one percenters) who have prospered over the past several decades, and everyone else who has gotten poorer. It’s a fairy tale narrative because almost all Americans have seen financial progress. The median household income adjusted for inflation rose by more than 40% since 1984.

Prosperity isn’t an “us versus them” zero-sum game. A rising tide really does lift all boats.

But there really are Two Americas today. First, there are the cultural and over-educated snobs – the kind of people who religiously read the New York Times, drive EVs, wear Harvard or Yale sweaters, and have never even heard of NASCAR or eaten at Popeyes or ridden a John Deere tractor.

And then there is normal main street America. The snobs thumb their collective noses at the unrefined working-class Americans. The elites believe they are intellectually, culturally, and morally superior to the working class and rural America. You won’t see too many elites at a Trump rally with 30,000 people.
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The elites hate Americans. They tend to live in New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco Bay Area.

Old n Grumpy:

--- Quote --- The elites hate Americans. They tend to live in New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco Bay Area.
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Isn’t it quite strange that they pick expensive overcrowded filthy crime, ridden, places to live?

I thought they were intelligent? :thatsright:

Ptarmigan:
Shocking Rasmussen Poll Of The 1%
https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf

Who the elites are:
73% are Democrats
67% are 35 to 54 years old
86% are White
47% support Sanders-like policies

What stood out:
47% say there are too much freedom
55% who went to Dirty Dozen Colleges elites say there are too much freedom
69% politically obsessed elites say there are too much freedom

Dirty Dozen Colleges
Harvard
Yale
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Columbia
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Princeton
Cornell
MIT
UChicago

RonE:

--- Quote from: Old n Grumpy on January 23, 2024, 12:20:42 PM ---Isn’t it quite strange that they pick expensive overcrowded filthy crime, ridden, places to live?

I thought they were intelligent? :thatsright:

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Yea. But they tend to live on the nicer side of those towns.

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