tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

> _“In the 1950s, most western democracies had an elite party (right-wing) vs. an anti-elite party (left-wing), and the elite party captured both the richest and the best-educated segments of the population. Over time, this shifted to democracies having a multi-elite system: a financial-elite party vs. an educational-elite party.”_

🔬 **Some notable exceptions to that global trend**:

In the 🇺🇸 #USA, the influence of income has vanished, and support depends solely (and strongly!) on education (highly educated ↔ leftist).

In #Scandinavia (epitome: 🇸🇪 #Sweden) it's the opposite: education became irrelevant, and political preference depends only on income (perhaps because they are wealthy, egalitarian countries?).

🇵🇹 #Portugal hasn't changed like the other countries: there the Right is still supported mostly by educated (and rich) voters. (NB: in the 50's and 60's, Portugal was a dictatorship).

🇮🇹 #Italy is the rare case where leftist parties ended up being the parties of the _richest_ segment of the population. I wouldn't read too much into this, though, as the political landscape there during the last decade or two has been a populist mess.

🇪🇸 #Spain is the country where education and income tell you _the least_ about political preferences! There's still the secular correlation “high income ↔ right wing”, but it's very weak today. (NB: in the 50's and 60's, Spain was also a dictatorship).

🌐 **Globally**:

Half a century ago, the Left appealed mostly to the poor and uneducated, and the Right to the rich and educated.

Nowadays, supporting leftist parties still correlates with lower income (and supporting the Right with higher income), although that link has weakened.

What's most interesting is that correlation along the “education” axis has _reversed_: today, it is mostly _educated_ people supporting the Left, and _uneducated_ people supporting the Right.

[This #ACX post](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-hanania-on-partisanship) contains some very insightful interpretations and charts, and complements nicely [my recent toot about #theLeft vs #theRight](https://qoto.org/@tripu/106606951147365147). #politics

Some highlights in a 🧵 thread:

Kind reminder that in #Afghanistan, in addition to girls & women being killed, raped, tortured, beaten, robbed, oppressed and terrorised, there are also #boys & #men being killed, raped, tortured, beaten, robbed, oppressed and terrorised.

You wouldn't know by #mainstreammedia or #socialnetworks!

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 13:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/logic-effective-altruism/peter-singer-reply-effective-altruism-responses

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 12:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/logic-effective-altruism/leila-janah-response-effective-altruism

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 11:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/logic-effective-altruism/larissa-macfarquhar-response-effective-altruism

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 10:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/logic-effective-altruism/daron-acemoglu-response-effective-altruism

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 9:

https://bostonreview.net/forum/logic-effective-altruism/angus-deaton-response-effective-altruism

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 8:

http://bostonreview.net/forum/peter-singer-logic-effective-altruism

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 7:

https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/kendi-and-diangelo-dont-debate-people

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 6:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 5:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/scaring_people_.html

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 4:

https://www.econlib.org/climate-agnosticism/

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 3:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/12/kate-clanchy-no-one-is-safe-from-the-woke-mob/

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 2:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/an-afghan-woman-in-kabul-now-i-have-to-burn-everything-i-achieved

#Pocket articles read while waiting in the queue to get my second dose, no. 1:

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/08/10577988/tik-tok-dating-app-profile-feedback