Originally Posted by
tallpilot
The bottom 50% struggling to keep the lights on doesn't care about geopolitics or containing China. If you don't want them to vote for socialism then you have to demonstrate that trickle down provides more than table scraps and dumpster diving.
The bottom 50% are going to have to fix their own cultural problems to improve their lives. Among the things that require work is VALUING good K-12 public education and holding accountable the politicians and teachers unions that don’t offer their kids an opportunity for that. Although an occasional kid will make it who “never learned to read or write so well,” any group which neither values nor gets their children a good opportunity for a decent K-12 education is forever going to be stuck in lag behind groups who do.