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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It

From the New World

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The Basis of Left Politics

The basis of all left politics now is overwhelmingly found in the college educated. A huge number of people who, you know, do really well in high school, go to an elite college and graduate out and start writing for the New York Times or wherever are people who come from families with wealth. And so we don't have an economic left to the degree that we have a cultural left because they just aren't that motivated by economic issues Because they've never felt the sting of being poor, right?

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