David Goodhart on Why the Educated Elite Lost Touch with Democracy
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:29.9 | I do think one of the problems and one of the reasons why kind of politics is sort of so difficult in some ways these days than it used to be, is that, you know, when |
| 0:39.1 | politics was primarily socioeconomic, it was easier to come to compromises. It's easier to split the |
| 0:44.8 | difference on, you know, on issues to do with levels of public spending or levels of redistribution. |
| 0:50.5 | When it comes to these issues that are more to do with identities and immigration and national sovereignty, it's much harder to come to compromise. |
| 1:02.0 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:10.0 | Who do we value and respect in society and why? |
| 1:16.3 | One dimension of this that we don't think about enough is the respect that we give to people |
| 1:24.5 | who are college educated, who are white-collar workers, and the lack of respect we sometimes accord to those who are college-educated, who are white-collar workers, and the lack of respect. |
| 1:29.2 | We sometimes accord to those who have, quote-unquote, only graduated high school, who work in |
| 1:34.8 | blue-collar jobs, who often have very skilled trades and professions, might make decent money, |
| 1:39.3 | but may not feel as though they gain the same kind of respect at the local block party when they tell people |
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