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Re: B402 post# 435662

Monday, 01/23/2023 5:11:25 PM

Monday, January 23, 2023 5:11:25 PM

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Ok, my goof i guess, it was just that from the start of yours ..

"On the same topic....The older are mostly retired baby boomers,,,They had good careers, They worked hard, enjoying the past era of a social contract between the corps and their employees before it was slowly been eaten up......And even those that replace them are insulated from the other 60% of the population.... "
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Can't fix a problem you don't know is there. Our separation creates a dangerous and divisive country.without even trying....Power to the elderly, they know the dangers we face and if they understood inequity was out of control, they'd never stand for it, that's how good people are.......
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to your end there i got the impression you were saying there was a separation, which i understood you to mean between some 40% vs the other 60% and that the 40% were "insulated from" - so not seeing the ever increasing inequity we see. I thought you were saying some 40% did not see the inequality some 60% were suffering as a problem. And that you were including the Boomers in the "insulated from" 40%.

Would appreciate your telling me how exactly i got it wrong. Just so i understand better what you were saying.

That said, and this would be better as a separate reply if you reply to both, i thought it was interesting, and curious, that inequality which we see as being talked about as a concern was not included in the list of concerns Pew saw that the 2022 midterm voters had. Economy one. Closely followed by education, health care and violent crime, even though stats say violent crime is not nearly as bad as it was in the 1990s.

November 3, 2022

Key facts about U.S. voter priorities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections

By Katherine Schaeffer and Ted Van Green
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/03/key-facts-about-u-s-voter-priorities-ahead-of-the-2022-midterm-elections/

History as far as i understand says Democrat lawmakers handle the economy better. And surely at least most would see Democrat's positions on education and healthcare as more responsibly forward looking.

Of course politically motivated conservative created culture war noise messes up many voters minds, particularly in education issues now. The GOP really does still abuse the fear factor to con voters. Still.

I just though it was curious that Inequality isn't in the list. Just because we see it as a problem. Just as many others that we read and hear also do.

It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”

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