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Forwarded from Doug Huntington
A lot of white nationalists and white nationalist adjacent pundits once predicted that as America got browner, it would be harder to defend benefits for the elderly like social security. The reasoning was that the youthful rising tide of color would resent benefits going to an overwhelmingly white demographic they had no connection to. They'd prefer that money going to themselves. Given the absolute entrenchment of boomer wealth and privilege, that prediction has turned out to be wrong. You have to give boomers credit for one thing: they are politically committed and always show up when their house, boat, second house, etc. is on the line. So committed that they were able to keep in place benefits and policies which under conventional expectations of the browning of America would have been sharply curtailed. There's something we can learn from that.
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