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In an age of scarcity (for many) and excess (for the few), the language and policies of diversity become zero-sum. What another gets, you lose. So goes the polarized thinking that has turned our public square into a fever swamp of resentments and recriminations.
J.D. Vance says universal child care is an attack on the working poor. That s ridiculous. The Hillbilly Elegy author dunks on free child care for working parents but doesn t support the American Families Plan. Conservatives can t praise the nuclear family and withhold the help those families need.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images April 30, 2021, 9:53 AM UTC J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the book that poor-splained Appalachia to a certain segment of well-off society just ahead of the start of the Trump administration, did a bad tweet Thursday. This is not entirely novel in and of itself: Vance is considering running to replace Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, in 2022, and his tweets have grown worse and worse as the weeks have worn on. ....
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Print this article REDDING, California Mark Baird is a third-generation Californian who hopes to one day be a first-generation Jeffersonian. Baird, like many in California s sprawling, mostly rural north, is disillusioned with his state s Sacramento-based government, which he believes no longer represents northern interests. That s why Baird and many others in the 23 counties above Sacramento have officially declared the reclamation of their state, even if it means breaking away and starting anew in the proposed 51st state of Jefferson, named for the third U.S. president. People are basically hopeless here, said Baird, who lives in Siskiyou County. We’ve gone from being economically viable and net contributors to the general fund to being what the rest of California jokingly refer to as the welfare counties. But, we weren’t the welfare counties. We were made the welfare counties by the state of California. ....