Peggy Noonan writes with true empathy, “Here’s a generalization based on a lifetime of experience and observation. The working-class people who are pushing back have had harder lives than those now determining their fate. They haven’t had familial or economic ease. No one sent them to Yale. They often come from considerable family dysfunction. This has left them tougher or harder, you choose the word.
When you are reasonable with people and show them respect, they will want to respond in kind. But when they feel those calling the shots are being disrespectful, they will push back hard and rebel even in ways that hurt them.
This is no time to make our divisions worse. The pandemic is a story not only about our health but our humanity.” Her full article on:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scenes-from-the-class-struggle-in-lockdown-11589498276
The Great American Divide is Liberals telling us to eat cake when we barely have money to buy bread
