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Liberals have a classism problem, and nowhere does it show up more than the student debt relief bill that is going to drop (at least) $400B on less than 40% of the country who went to college and earn as high as $125k/year in personal income. We're essentially injecting inflationary spending into the economy at a time when we're trying to reverse inflation just so that the kids in this country who were gifted enough to attend college and then earn good money afterwards can get a fucking bailout--right after they got done telling us how bailing out the top earners in the country was wrong in 2008 and 2011. The hypocrisy of post-college liberals is so so sweet.
The voters of this nation survive on the economy, not on democracy. When decadent post-college liberals enforce wealth inequality in this country through wealth-mating (oh sorry, "assortative mating" according to the NBER), then the economy gets more difficult to survive in for everyone else who didn't get to wealth-mate at the highest levels of household income. When the economy gets more difficult to survive in because of the wealth inequality wealth-mating fosters at scale and excess assets that the wealthy scoop up to make themselves richer at everyone else's expense, well, then eventually the working class stops giving a fuck about having a fair democracy since the rich stopped giving a fuck about having a fair economy or a fair meritocracy.
We're watching this country burn down economically and politically because the richest and most blessed Americans are the greediest pieces of shit, and they're going to drive democracy into the ground by building widespread resentment against the world those richest and most blessed Americans built. They just couldn't slow themselves the fuck down and think about the fact that their wealth is power, and that with greater power comes greater responsibility to *society*--not just never-ending "best life" decadence for you and your family. We reap what we sow here folks. We're reaping it as we speak. We may lose democracy in this country as a result of the richest Americans gorging themselves on wealth and not giving a fuck what happens to everyone else.