Nixon barely damaged the Republicans. Gerald Ford held the Presidency right after and was succeeded by Carter, a one term President. We know what happened after that.
Are you talking about the state party or federal? I ask because I can't think of a situation for either federal party that I'd describe as a "permanent" defeat. Maybe the Whigs back in the day?
The transit system was great for me because I worked at a Uni and got direct service door-to-door. It worked just all right for my wife. It was convenient for her, but she worked downtown in a professional office. The kind where people wore suits and the senior people still wore ties (in LA!).
Buses were clean in the morning and full of people headed to work, but on her return trip they would be be...fragrant with a different clientele. This isn't meant to be classist, but she didn't feel safe and was worried about cleanliness. Our drycleaning bills were high.
We were told we could manage for a couple years because we didn't know anyone and so we didn't get invited anywhere. It was true. All of our trips were to popular, well serviced destinations.
That was prescient advice because eventually we did meet people and started getting invited to dinner parties etc. where buses simply didn't run. And a car was purchased.
I know a lot of people on acreages and they don't consider themselves part of a "neighbourhood". In rural situations I've been part of we'd drive to even visit neighbors. So yeah it's city centric because the question doesn't make sense for those who choose a less populated location.
It's a phrase echoing back to the Roman Empire. A pale is a fence in Latin so it means "outside the fence". We still call individual vertical elements of a fence palings.
You're not wrong, but that doesn't make you entirely right either. The "crabs in a bucket" mentality comes from attacking people who are doing slightly better than you. It might seem like they significant wealth, but they can still be bankrupted by a chronic medical diagnosis or any other of a million things. I choose to focus on the real issue - the 0.0001% and not people making 4 or 5 times the median income.
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
It is difficult to comprehend how staggering wealth inequality is. Minimum wage earners have more in common with her parents, then her parents did with the truly wealthy. I have always liked Pen's parade (which is about income rather than wealth), but there are other aids. One pixel wealth might work in this context because they provide a marker for median income in the visualization.
They worked mid-level jobs in finance, which pays well compared to most careers, but it's just on the higher end of middle class. I know several successful people in the music industry and that's honestly a pretty common story. They all had high end instruments and gear at a young age. One band I know had a dedicated jam space at one of their father's warehouses. They could leave their gear set up in a secure location and play loud anytime for as long as they liked. Things like that really contribute to success.
The Kid Laroi is another example of it. Both parents were in the industry and he had a development contract at 14. At 17 he was living with Juice Wrld and doing remixes with Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. That doesn't happen by accident.
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And removed founder after that. Because it was going hurt monetization.