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I agree with you but it’s more complicated.

Not all kids want to grow up and be something. There used to be an avenue (future) for those kids. I don’t think that exists much any more.

What I mean is a blue collar family could provide enough to produce another content blue collar worker. If you graduated high school today to be a content blue collar worker your options are kind of limited.

I think some of this structural reality results in the appeal of Bernie to many young voters.



Yup. Both Bernie and Trump came up because of a dissatisfaction with the status quo amongst blue collar workers (Trump's slogan definitely conjures up images of a time when blue collar workers had relatively comfortable lives).




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