Silver Bullets and Other Obstacles
Silver Bullets and Other Obstacles
The prospects for reorienting social programs for residents of flyover country diminish as the left wing of the Democratic Party proposes programs that are ruinously expensive and fail to resonate with working-class voters. A key issue of the 2016 presidential election was the influence of cartels that favor professionals over workers without a college degree. Thus, proposals like a universal basic income, Medicare for All, and free public college are likely to alienate blue-collar voters.
Keywords: working-class, blue-collar voters
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