What does the white working class want?

[JCanete]

46. That's right. We're in that range where politics are all about playing on the limbic response.

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Insecurity sucks for making people receptive to abandoning their boogie men and assumptions. That's why the one cynical component that appeals to me about waging a class war is that it taps into this perpetual state of fear, but finds a more suitable target for it. In the process, hopefully, we can erode the absurd and baseless fears that people have accumulated over their lifetimes, that keep being reinforced by people with their own agendas.

I am so on board with basic income guarantee for everything it might do to mitigate future suffering, and to make society a better place. It makes art and civic mindedness viable. It takes away that ever-present insecurity about food and shelter that impacts cognitive function. It undermines the most exploitive work environments.