"Whatever its faults, middle-class nationalism provided a common ground, common standards, a common frame of reference, without which society dissolves into nothing more than contending factions, as the Founding Fathers of America understood so well—a war of all against all."
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By 'nationalism' he meant a sense of common and unifying identity and purpose (even in the midst of the always pluralistic and motley American polity), not necessarily the overweening rah-rah jingoism of our Trumpian present, and all that darkly suggests for the future.
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You sound like you are yearning for the "good old days" of Mad Men - a fictitious time of major suppression of human rights and far less meritocracy than now. Ironically the GI Bill - its greatest impact on urban lower classes was the biggest equalizer of society - thus Bernie.
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Social mobility and middle class wages (in real terms) are lower now than in the past. My parents came as refugees, and they'd have a harder time now than then. It's the progressive's conceit to assume we stand at the apex of moral history, but I tend to be skeptical.
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Social mobility for WHITES or EU immigrants - yes. But that is a very narrow way to measure success. If you are Asian or Indian - you are much better off now than in than in the 50s
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