There are a lot of takes like "people don't get how hard it is even to be an Ivy League graduate these days, that's why we're all socialists" that don't really proceed to the natural next question of, shouldn't like, college dropouts be even more socialist-y then?
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Similarly there is literally a cottage industry of millennial writers posting and writing books about the aggregate economic statistics of millennials, as if they are exemplars, when they obviously aren't.
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Like yes, you are both a Millennial and (you say) a broke magazine writer, and yes, millennials in the aggregate have less wealth than Baby Boomers at the same age, but A may or may not be fully explained by B.
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I mean probably it is in part. But you know, that's not really how aggregates work.
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I do think Sanders in particular has had a certain, uh, lower-status appeal throughout his career, as David said. I'm not as sure this extends to general ideological questions though.
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The animosity of the American working class to both socialism and its elite ambassadors is the left-wing equivalent of all those teens getting knocked up at Bible camp
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