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  • The analogy I always liked was:

    Success is like a carnival dart game.

    If you’re poor you probably don’t even get a chance to play. Maybe once with some help from friends and family. But even then, the odds are still not good.

    If you’re middle class you can afford a throw or two, significantly increasing the odds of success.

    If you’re rich you can afford to throw as many darts as you want until you succeed.









  • You are factually correct about “30% of the vote in CA”. But I think you are misinterpreting the data. PEW says that in 2020 96% of people voted strictly along party lines. PEW shows 30% of registered voters in CA are GOP or GOP leaning. Which means whoever the GOP candidate is would have received 29% of the voter REGARDLESS of who the candidate was. And before you point out the 1% “gain”, Biden “gained” 6% over registered DEM voters using the same metrics in CA.

    (I sourced PEW because they were the first Google results that had the stats at the detail level I needed)