Does the left hate upwardly mobile strivers more than the current American right does?
Until recently, the American right talked a good game about striving. But it's also nursed an anti-intellectual streak for a while and serves a coalition with arguably lower human capital than the left-aligned coalition. (By many measures, American "blu…
Does the left hate upwardly mobile strivers more than the current American right does?
Until recently, the American right talked a good game about striving. But it's also nursed an anti-intellectual streak for a while and serves a coalition with arguably lower human capital than the left-aligned coalition. (By many measures, American "blue country" is more economically productive than American "red country", even if "blue country" government is really annoying.)
To be clear, I don't think it's wrong for striving digital nomads to flee high-cost-of-living "blue" areas. Maybe it'll even help bridge this divide?:
STEM PhDs in America still (perhaps increasingly) lean blue, despite STEM's reputation for rewarding hard work and talent more objectively than other academic disciplines do. The reddest STEMlords I've known seem to loathe their blue colleagues as effete academics who somehow aren't striving even while they're in direct competition in demanding disciplines with these striving red STEMlords.
Ten years ago, even five, if you'd said the American right makes more room for the strivers than the American left does, I would have agreed with you. Now, though?
Does the left hate upwardly mobile strivers more than the current American right does?
Until recently, the American right talked a good game about striving. But it's also nursed an anti-intellectual streak for a while and serves a coalition with arguably lower human capital than the left-aligned coalition. (By many measures, American "blue country" is more economically productive than American "red country", even if "blue country" government is really annoying.)
To be clear, I don't think it's wrong for striving digital nomads to flee high-cost-of-living "blue" areas. Maybe it'll even help bridge this divide?:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/09/10/america-has-two-economies-and-theyre-diverging-fast/
STEM PhDs in America still (perhaps increasingly) lean blue, despite STEM's reputation for rewarding hard work and talent more objectively than other academic disciplines do. The reddest STEMlords I've known seem to loathe their blue colleagues as effete academics who somehow aren't striving even while they're in direct competition in demanding disciplines with these striving red STEMlords.
Ten years ago, even five, if you'd said the American right makes more room for the strivers than the American left does, I would have agreed with you. Now, though?