Reply #69: this is just not true [View All]

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This is a false and destructive idea that has dire consequences for millions of people.

Yes, for those living in the suburbs there is always a story about the neighbor or relative mismanaging their money and getting into debt in an attempt to "keep up with the Joneses" - establish status and reach for the good suburban life. It is a skewed and biased view to extrapolated a few cases in a very limited demographic - relatively upscale and striving white suburbia - and make generalizations about the general public from that. Unfortunately, this bias reinforces the right wing propaganda and that leads to massive suffering by real people.

Living and working for decades in urban and rural neighborhoods I never see this problem. Most people are struggling to cover necessities. Of course people are in debt. What alternative is there to that?

Saying that 99% of people's problems are their own fault in cruel and inhumane as well as being politically extremely reactionary.

This chronic problem among people who are nominally Democrats - a complete and utter failure to have any compassion for the people in the bottom half (which is now the bottom 75% and rapidly approaching 90% of the population) or even see them, even recognize that they exist - has ripped the moral core out of liberalism and the Democratic party.