Social Capital™️
I have never seen the plight of my generation articulated so well.
This is the core issue we must solve, we must provide abundant social capital to the next generation - using the levers of politics and private industry - or humanity as we know it will end.
Crazy thing is that Obama already delivered the blueprint for winning over the white working class. He made legitimate ideological and policy concessions to the white working class, and he was rewarded by receiving a significant share of their votes.
Progressives simply don't want to make any concessions whatsoever, so they have decided to compensate by running people with working class aesthetics while maintaining far-left policies. This does not work, because people are not stupid and also being extremely crass, slovenly, and unprofessional are offensive caricatures of the working class.
Even before the most recent scandal, Platner was well under water with working class Maine voters and his entire base was white college grads.
Can’t have Pete Buttigieg because he spent a year getting coffee for partners at McKinsey but the mercenary with the Nazi tattoo who beats women was fine up until this afternoon according to leftists
The boring truth is that we know the names of the politicians who overperform with working class voters — it’s Josh Shapiro in PA, Roy Cooper & Josh Stein & Don Davis in NC, Vincente Gonzalez & Henry Cuellar in Texas, Gallego/Kelly/Hobbs in AZ, Whitmer/Slotkin in MI.
I am genuinely so upset about this. I remember my parents telling me how cool and unifying the bicentennial was, and I even collected the special quarters as a kid
now, Trump ruined my chance to experience something similar and turned the entire thing into trashy MAGAslop.
There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.
It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.
It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:
Lotta Butlerian Jihad/Orange Catholic Bible jokes about the new encyclical, which made me realize that Pope Leo is a 70 year old math major from Chicago, so it feels virtually guaranteed he has in fact read Dune, and probably up through God Emperor of Dune.
An Aldi sandwich is not prison food. The real issue here is that Zoomers feel they are entitled to eating the richest, most delicious foods at all times and have dispensed with the concept of all things in moderation. Learn how to make a good sandwich and lose the dramatics.
Boomers think Gen Z is screwed because of fancy lunches. Online doomers think Gen Z is screwed because the Boomers ruined everything.
I'm in @TheArgumentMag arguing for a secret third option: Gen Z is doing fine, but social media is driving us insane.
https://t.co/CIcc8s7isB
You are being confronted with middle and upper middle class people telling you how they actually eat and you can't even process it because your brain is so full of TikTok bullshit. You have a legitimate problem and genuinely need professional help.
Big financial problem : I don't have the time or capacity to make a quesadilla after staring at my phone for 16 hours which is why I must have a quesadilla delivered for $40. There is no solution to this that involves me changing my behavior.