ConclusionsGlobalisation/migration (domestic vs external inequality) and educational expansion (education vs property inequality) have created new multi-dimensional conflicts about inequality, leading to the collapse of the postwar left-vs-right party system.Why didn’t democracy reduce inequality?Because multi-dimensional coalitions are complicated.Without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it’s difficult to have the low-education, low-income voters from all origins vote for the … Continue reading Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
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Conversations with Conservatives: Lies We Tell About Ourselves & Others
I was eating at a place that has communal seating. An older white man, mid-70s I'd guess, declares himself a conservative, and later, within the context of another table with, presumably, fellow conservatives says, lightly paraphrased: "Women would rather not work. The only reason they do so is because of economic necessity."An older white man, … Continue reading Conversations with Conservatives: Lies We Tell About Ourselves & Others
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