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"to find common policy" This is also a convenient trope. You can literally be both of the pictures you paint in America, sometimes in the span of the same year

"to find common policy" This is also a convenient trope. You can literally be both of the pictures you paint in America, sometimes in the span of the same year. Things like affordable job training and college education, and universal health care would benefit most Americans. I have a feeling especially on Hacker News that a lot of people do not like to compare themselves to poorer working people - and think they are wildly different somehow.

JumpCrisscross 6y ago
> affordable job training and college education, and universal health care would benefit most Americans In theory. In practice, job training has a poor track record [1]. College aid mostly helped middle- and high-income families [2]. Universal health care is an unknown. A high-income New Yorker and rural Obama-Trump Alabaman will prioritise different things in a healthcare bill. The latter don't trust the former. For good reason. We have ignored them. We then dressed up that ignorance by pretending our interests are identical. Those who checked found uncomfortable truths. A healthcare bill fighting for support in Texas can't fund abortions and transition surgery and drug rehabilitation. But without those things it is a non-starter in New York and California. [1] https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5n7j_-EhB3IC&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&dq=nafta+job+training&ots=UjTEvdoa7I&sig=RG-M5UdYQSo2JLxOCxPj0O_twRY#v=onepage&q=nafta%20job%20training&f=false https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5n7j_-EhB3IC&oi=... [2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7756/w7756.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7756/w7756...