re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

Had a disheartening conversation at lunch the other day with a friend who is in Trump’s targeted group: WWC and middle class. He detests Trump and voted for Hillary but said that Republicans are only for the rich, Democrats are only for the poor, especially minorities, and no one represents his economic class. His view is that most people vote their pocket books and do not care about the other issues, although he agrees that racists and Nazis abound among Trump supporters. Others voted Trump because they mistakenly thought he could address their economic angst. He felt Hillary ran a terrible campaign by failing to go to the key states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all of which he thought were Democratic states, even though they are run by Republicans and he doesn’t see that the Democrats have a star candidate who can compete against Trump in 2020.

One issue that especially irritates him is the excessive cost of higher education: the poor get scholarships and the rich can buy their way into anything. But there is nothing to help people like him fund their children’s education.

Well, if he’d stop thinking he’s different than the lower class, we could fix it. Help Democrats raise taxes on the rich to pay for college. I’m all for the effective rates of the 50s.