Taking down the luxury belief class: Troubled by Rob Henderson

Henderson makes a compelling argument for why class, culture and family structure determine life trajectory through his own heart-wrenching story. Liberals need to read this.

Troubled simultaneously melted my heart and made me angry. Angry for Henderson and at the adults who didn’t give him stability and even angrier at the college-educated parts of society that hold the luxury beliefs that disproportionately harm everyone below them in society as they trickle down.

The affluent have largely abandoned trickle-down economics in favor of trickle-down culture whereby they pluck talented people from ‘marginalized’ backgrounds based on race and gender to join their ranks, and their harmful beliefs about family, crime, substances, and everything that provides structure to life trickle down to the lower classes. This is more pernicious than the belief in trickle down economics, because at least you could name that. They find endless excuses (as did I) for behaviors among the lower classes that they would never tolerate in themselves and their children, as though pitying and excusing people who make self-destructive choices is social justice. This is how we get thi…