How Education, Not Income, Came to Define America s Political Divide | Opinion On 6/9/21 at 10:11 AM EDT
Not too long ago, it was easy to describe the demographics of your typical left-wing political party anywhere in the industrialized West. This party would be composed of low-income, working-class people who were primarily motivated by pocketbook issues.
This described Labour in the United Kingdom and the Democratic Party in the United States, both of which built powerful economic policy-based coalitions following World War II. In the UK, Labour established the National Health Service, a system of socialized provision of health care that went on to be so popular that conservative and left-wing governments alike declined to roll it back.
PARIS “Let us think big,” exhorted US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen in May. “Let’s build something that lasts for generations.”Such is the transformative rhetoric behind President Joe Biden’s economic-policy agenda. But what, exactly, will be built and how will America be transformed? The answer is bound to be as much political as economic, because Biden has set out
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The rise of the new Toryism Insecurity is the mood of the time – and the Conservative Party has adapted to it. The year is 2033; the location is the site of the old Free Trade Hall in Manchester, which stands on the ground where the battle for liberal economics was won in 1846. It was a fight that split the British Conservative Party in two. But this day in 2033 it is the scene of a new contest. A riot is breaking out between the less well-educated and the discontented, who have been left out of social progress, and those whose better education has made them the winners in life’s marketplace.